I believe the 2940 has a utility you can activate on bootup using [ctrl]A or [alt]A or something like that. Get into that and tell it to detect SCSI devices. If the card isn't detecting the drives you have bad cabling, bad power, or bad drives... Shawn wrote: > On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 22:19:36 -0500 > Anton Yurchenko <phila at cascopoint.com> wrote: > > >>first look at you dmesg output, it`ll tell you if it detected them >>and any paritions that are found, that should give some idea if you >>are doing the right thing on hardware side. because the message that >>you are seeng is is linux telling you that it cannot find a >>devicethat is associated with a device file. also since you are >>already have a tape drive attached the hdd coud posibly by a >>/dev/sdb , /sev/sdc ... check the dmesg it the easiest >> > > > Thanks, I looked at dmesg previously but didn't see anything. I might > be overlooking something there, but in the syslog, I see this: > > Apr 5 05:19:04 fjorn kernel: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI > adapter> Apr 5 05:19:04 fjorn kernel: aic7880: Ultra Single > Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs > Apr 5 05:19:04 fjorn kernel: > Apr 5 05:19:04 fjorn kernel: 8regs : 2902.800 MB/sec > Apr 5 05:19:04 fjorn kernel: 32regs : 1914.800 MB/sec > Apr 5 05:19:04 fjorn kernel: pIII_sse : 3320.000 MB/sec > Apr 5 05:19:04 fjorn kernel: pII_mmx : 2952.800 MB/sec > Apr 5 05:19:04 fjorn kernel: p5_mmx : 2843.600 MB/sec > Apr 5 05:19:04 fjorn kernel: raid5: using function: pIII_sse > (3320.000 MB/sec) Apr 5 05:19:04 fjorn kernel: FAT: bogus logical > sector size 0 Apr 5 05:19:04 fjorn last message repeated 2 times > > > Unfortunately, due to the pinning difference, I need to disconnect my > SCSI tape device. The card and tape are 50-pin, and the HDD's I'm > trying to pull the data from are 68-pin. When the tape drive is > plugged in instead of the 68-pin HDD's, I get the following output: > > Apr 2 05:38:34 fjorn kernel: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI > adapter> Apr 2 05:38:34 fjorn kernel: aic7880: Ultra Single > Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs > Apr 2 05:38:34 fjorn kernel: > Apr 2 05:38:34 fjorn kernel: (scsi1:A:0): 10.000MB/s transfers > (10.000MHz, offs et 15) > Apr 2 05:38:34 fjorn kernel: Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python > 04106-XXX Rev: 743B > Apr 2 05:38:34 fjorn kernel: Type: Sequential-Access > ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Apr 2 05:38:34 fjorn kernel: 8regs : 2900.400 MB/sec > Apr 2 05:38:34 fjorn kernel: 32regs : 1919.200 MB/sec > Apr 2 05:38:34 fjorn kernel: pIII_sse : 3328.400 MB/sec > Apr 2 05:38:34 fjorn kernel: pII_mmx : 2952.800 MB/sec > Apr 2 05:38:34 fjorn kernel: p5_mmx : 2843.600 MB/sec > Apr 2 05:38:34 fjorn kernel: raid5: using function: pIII_sse > (3328.400 MB/sec) Apr 2 05:38:34 fjorn kernel: FAT: bogus logical > sector size 0 Apr 2 05:38:34 fjorn last message repeated 2 times > > > Here is all of dmesg's output in case I'm missing something: > > Linux version 2.4.22 (root at midas) (gcc version 3.2.3) #2 Tue Sep 2 > 17:35:31 PDT 2003 > BIOS-provided physical RAM map: > BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fff0000 (usable) > BIOS-e820: 000000003fff0000 - 000000003fff8000 (ACPI data) > BIOS-e820: 000000003fff8000 - 0000000040000000 (ACPI NVS) > BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) > BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) > Warning only 896MB will be used. > Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel. > 896MB LOWMEM available. > On node 0 totalpages: 229376 > zone(0): 4096 pages. > zone(1): 225280 pages. > zone(2): 0 pages. > Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=302 hdc=ide-scsi > ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi > Initializing CPU#0 > Detected 2539.145 MHz processor. > Console: colour dummy device 80x25 > Calibrating delay loop... 5072.48 BogoMIPS > Memory: 904016k/917504k available (2115k kernel code, 13100k reserved, > 692k data, 120k init, 0k highmem) > Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) > Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) > Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) > Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) > Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) > CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K > CPU: L2 cache: 512K > CPU: After generic, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 > CPU: Common caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz stepping 07 > Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. > Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. > Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. > POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX > mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au) > mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb81, last bus=2 > PCI: Using configuration type 1 > PCI: Probing PCI hardware > PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) > PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1 > Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge > PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/24c0] at 00:1f.0 > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.1 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2 > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.3 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:01.0 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:05.0 > Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 > Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 > Initializing RT netlink socket > Starting kswapd > VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 > Journalled Block Device driver loaded > vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xf880d000, size 1536k > vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=3 > vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:e680 > vesafb: scrolling: redraw > Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 > fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device > pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured > Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS > MULTIPORT SHARE_I RQ SERIAL_PCI enabled > ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 > RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize > loop: loaded (max 8 devices) > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with > idebus=xx ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1 > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.1 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.2 > ICH4: chipset revision 2 > ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio > hda: Maxtor 6E040L0, ATA DISK drive > blk: queue c0408d80, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) > hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX300E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > hda: attached ide-disk driver. > hda: host protected area => 1 > hda: 80293248 sectors (41110 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4998/255/63, > UDMA(100) Partition check: > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5 > Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers... > Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1.2 Sep 2 2003 17:32:27) > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:05.0 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.3 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:01.0 > scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 > <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter> > aic7880: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs > > md: linear personality registered as nr 1 > md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2 > md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3 > md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4 > raid5: measuring checksumming speed > 8regs : 2902.800 MB/sec > 32regs : 1914.800 MB/sec > pIII_sse : 3320.000 MB/sec > pII_mmx : 2952.800 MB/sec > p5_mmx : 2843.600 MB/sec > raid5: using function: pIII_sse (3320.000 MB/sec) > md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 > md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. > md: autorun ... > md: ... autorun DONE. > LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002) > Initializing Cryptographic API > NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 > IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP > IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536) > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. > FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 > UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted. > FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 > FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 > reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal > reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ide0(3,2)) ... > for (ide0(3,2)) > ide0(3,2):Using r5 hash to sort names > VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed > Adding Swap: 1469936k swap-space (priority -1) > reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal > reiserfs: checking transaction log (device lvm(58,0)) ... > for (lvm(58,0)) > lvm(58,0):Using r5 hash to sort names > reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal > reiserfs: checking transaction log (device lvm(58,1)) ... > for (lvm(58,1)) > lvm(58,1):Using r5 hash to sort names > reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal > reiserfs: checking transaction log (device lvm(58,2)) ... > for (lvm(58,2)) > lvm(58,2):Using r5 hash to sort names > reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal > reiserfs: checking transaction log (device lvm(58,3)) ... > for (lvm(58,3)) > lvm(58,3):Using r5 hash to sort names > reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal > reiserfs: checking transaction log (device lvm(58,4)) ... > for (lvm(58,4)) > lvm(58,4):Using r5 hash to sort names > reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal > reiserfs: checking transaction log (device lvm(58,5)) ... > for (lvm(58,5)) > lvm(58,5):Using r5 hash to sort names > reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal > reiserfs: checking transaction log (device lvm(58,6)) ... > for (lvm(58,6)) > lvm(58,6):Using r5 hash to sort names > Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann > agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 816M > agpgart: Detected an Intel(R) 845G, but could not find the secondary > device. Ass uming a non-integrated video card. > agpgart: Detected Intel(R) 845G chipset > agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000 > hdc: attached ide-scsi driver. > scsi2 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices > Vendor: SONY Model: CD-RW CRX300E Rev: KYS1 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 > Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002) > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:03.0 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.1 > eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xd000, 00:04:5A:7D:78:8D, IRQ 11. > gameport0: Emu10k1 Gameport at 0xdc00 size 8 speed 1011 kHz > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:01.0 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.3 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:05.0 > i810_rng: RNG not detected > usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs > usb.c: registered new driver hub > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1d.7 > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.7 to 64 > ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: Intel Corp. 82801DB USB2 > ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: irq 11, pci mem f90f0c00 > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 > ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: enabled 64bit PCI DMA > PCI: 00:1d.7 PCI cache line size set incorrectly (0 bytes) by BIOS/FW. > PCI: 00:1d.7 PCI cache line size corrected to 16. > ehci_hcd 00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Jun-19/2.4 > hub.c: USB hub found > hub.c: 6 ports detected > uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 > PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1d.0 > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64 > uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe400, IRQ 10 > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 > hub.c: USB hub found > hub.c: 2 ports detected > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1d.1 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:03.0 > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64 > uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe800, IRQ 11 > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 > hub.c: USB hub found > hub.c: 2 ports detected > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1d.2 > PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.1 > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.2 to 64 > uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xec00, IRQ 11 > usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 > hub.c: USB hub found > hub.c: 2 ports detected > i810_rng: RNG not detected > i810_rng: RNG not detected > i810_rng: RNG not detected > i810_rng: RNG not detected > i810_rng: RNG not detected > i810_rng: RNG not detected > i810_rng: RNG not detected > i810_rng: RNG not detected > i810_rng: RNG not detected > i810_rng: RNG not detected > i810_rng: RNG not detected > i810_rng: RNG not detected > i810_rng: RNG not detected > i810_rng: RNG not detected > /dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165 > /dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: initialized > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] > parport0: irq 7 detected > /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 1598 (vmnet-bridge) > /dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory. > /dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened > bridge-eth0: up > bridge-eth0: attached > /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 1622 (vmnet-netifup) > /dev/vmnet: hub 1 does not exist, allocating memory. > /dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened > 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-5336 > Wed Jan 14 1 8:29:26 PST 2004 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list