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- From: commike@lgc.com (Alan Commike)
- Subject: Re: added 2nd hd - lockup on boot!
- Message-ID: <commike.721849426@lgc.com>
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- References: <1992Nov12.214340.7689@lgc.com> <69476@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 17:43:46 GMT
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- plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky) writes:
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- >commike@lgc.com (Alan Commike) writes:
-
- >>A2000, 2091 controller.
- >>
- >>I added a second hd to the my machine. I was able to format and partition
- >>it just fine. When i rebooted, the machine now locks up in the middle of
- >>the boot sequence.
- >>
- >>Anyone seen anything similar to this? The 2091 is 2 - 3 years old.
-
- >Lemme guess. Is your new drive, by any chance, one of the older Maxtor
- >units, like an LXT200S or something? There's some trouble with the ROMs
- >on those drives that won't allow the machine to cold boot, hanging the
- >SCSI bus with the symptoms you described. I'm told there's no fix.
-
- >You can warm boot the system just fine once it's locked, right?
-
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- Nope!
-
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- It's an old priam 738 (thanks John for the jumper info). It doesn't warm
- boot, just hangs in the same place. I get the same thing if i boot off of
- floppy or my original drive.
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- I have older 5.?? roms in the 2091. I've heard the 2091 roms are up to
- 6.??. Any ideas if that may help??
-
-
-
- Why would the bus hang on cold boot and not on warm boot? It looks like
- it's time to look into what happens at boot time, how autoconifig works,
- and the scsi protocol. Can anyone enlighten me on this???
-
-
- thanks,
-
- ...alan
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