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Re: Wanted, SCSI bus trick
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Gaume)
Sun Nov 8 16:38:23 1998
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 21:30:32 +0000
From: Thomas Gaume <tom@flwireless.net>
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I learned a valuable lesson the other day simular to this. I have a Jazz
drive and must have a disk physically installed for the machine to boot (Yes,
I have it in the fstab on purpose). Otherwise it just wants the root password
and dumps me to a term.
"M. Neidorff" wrote:
> >
> >Which all makes me wonder if there is a way to "reboot" the SCSI adapter
> >from inside Linux...
> >
> >Depending on who made your adapter and how well they support Linux this
> >might be a good question for the manufacturer.
>
> While I can't give you a direct answer, perhpas this will help. Due to old
> bios, when I reboot this computer (when in linux) the scsi adapter doesn't
> get quite reset properly and so does not recoginze any of the devices on
> the scsi bus. Sometimes I have to power the system down (as opposed to
> reset button or 3 finger salute) to get the scsi bus back on track. From
> this, I think that once the bus recoginzed its devices before os boot, you
> can't add more devices. All scsi devices need to be on when the computer
> is turned on.
>
> Mark
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