I have been chasing intermittent problems with my hard disks for a while
now, and have replaced nearly everything, including drives, in an
attempt to fix them. I had convinced myself that it must be a
motherboard problem so I just swapped out to the one listed below. Disk
errors show up at the end
The thing that has been bothering me is that I replaced a drive 2 months
ago because of similar errors, and wd3, which is now showing errors, is
a brand new drive.
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Subject:Re: IDE disk problems
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:45:45 -0400
From: Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Steve Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I recently installed a SCSI card and an external HP SureStore 24G tape
drive, and am unable to access it. By reading lots of man pages, it
appears that I need to configure /dev/rst0 so that it knows what is
hooked to the SCSI port, but I have no clue how to do it. Worse, I have
this feeling tha
Otto Moerbeek wrote:
To access the tape, you need to be root or be in the operator group.
-Otto
I am in the operator group. I didn't know that obsd would recognize a
device hooked to an external scsi port, so that is the first hurdle.
There are some jumpers I do not yet understand,
For the archives - I borrowed a different HP drive, and it came up in
the dmesg as it should have. Looks like my SureStore is junk.
Steve Harding wrote:
I recently installed a SCSI card and an external HP SureStore 24G tape
drive, and am unable to access it. By reading lots of man pages, it
For the record: seems that the Promise ide controller card was junk -
once I pulled it, my problems went away.
Steve Harding wrote:
I have been chasing intermittent problems with my hard disks for a while
now, and have replaced nearly everything, including drives, in an
attempt to fix them. I
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