ivwshane
Lifer
Ok here is the deal, I have a gateway 6400 server that came with a 9GB IBM scsi hard drive. Today when I got home my system wasn't responding so I rebooted it and it came up with a, "No rom basic".
So I checked the cables and everything and they all seem to be connected fine, I reboot and get the same error. So I try booting with a knoppix cd to see if linux can see the drive and if it can access it but linux doesn't see it (but I don't know if knoppix auto configs scsi adapters). So then I try booting with another IBM scsi drive from another gateway server and it boots up fine. I've also tried to boot with the good drive and the bad drive connected but unfortunately I'm not too familar with scsi jumper settings (hell I'm not familar with scsi period), so I haven't been able to boot this way.
I next tried booting from a diagnostic disk downloaded from hitachi, but the program didn't seem to find the disk or controller so I don't know if it supports my mobo's built in controller and I've tried searching asus's site to see what controller the serverworks board uses but it seems asus's site is down.
So with all that does it sound like my scsi hard drive is dead?
If not is there anything you can think of that will allow me to test it?
Oh and I also tried reinstalling windows on it but when it gets to the part to overwrite any files I have I get a blue screen (and yes I installed the scsi drivers during the initial setup).
So I checked the cables and everything and they all seem to be connected fine, I reboot and get the same error. So I try booting with a knoppix cd to see if linux can see the drive and if it can access it but linux doesn't see it (but I don't know if knoppix auto configs scsi adapters). So then I try booting with another IBM scsi drive from another gateway server and it boots up fine. I've also tried to boot with the good drive and the bad drive connected but unfortunately I'm not too familar with scsi jumper settings (hell I'm not familar with scsi period), so I haven't been able to boot this way.
I next tried booting from a diagnostic disk downloaded from hitachi, but the program didn't seem to find the disk or controller so I don't know if it supports my mobo's built in controller and I've tried searching asus's site to see what controller the serverworks board uses but it seems asus's site is down.
So with all that does it sound like my scsi hard drive is dead?
If not is there anything you can think of that will allow me to test it?
Oh and I also tried reinstalling windows on it but when it gets to the part to overwrite any files I have I get a blue screen (and yes I installed the scsi drivers during the initial setup).
