I forget everything is stripped of formatting and plain text is all that
make it through. If it helps to follow, the *s are separate boot sequences
and the o's are sequential lines following that appear on the screen for
that boot sequence...
As in...
* Blah, Blah, Blah...
o Blah, Blah, Blah...
o Blah, Blah, Blah...
* Blah, Blah, Blah...
o Blah, Blah, Blah...
o Blah, Blah, Blah...
-----Original Message-----
From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joseph M. Riccardi
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2016 1:15 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [foxboro] SCSI problems
AW70, WinNT, SCSI folks,
I have an old AW70, WinNT, P93 (Dell Optiplex GX240) that I cannot get to
boot to the external SCSI Winchester drive. Most of the errors on boot up
appear to be related to the SCSI port/parts/equipment. I have swapped out
everything I can think of (various SCSI cards, internal and external SCSI
cables, even different external Winchester drives, the old and new models)
but still no success. However, depending on what I replace, I get different
boot errors, although I believe they are all related to the SCSI components
and/or the external SCSI Winchester drives. A sampling of errors include
but are not limited to the following:
* Press <Ctrl><A> for SCSISelect T Utility. (Note: <Ctrl><A> does
nothing)
o Time-out failure during SCSI Inquiry Command!
o Rescanning for SCSI Devices...
o No SCSI Boot Device Found.
o SCSI BIOS not installed! (Note: What SCSI BIOS? F2 for setup
utility shows no BIOS settings)
* Press <Ctrl><A> for SCSISelect T Utility. (Note: <Ctrl><A> does
nothing)
o This time it shows . Slot Ch ID LUN Vendor Product
Size Synch (Note: On a good boot it would show the external drive
details but not now)
o Time-out failure during SCSI Inquiry Command!
o Rescanning for SCSI Devices...
o This time it shows . Slot(B1 or 81?) Ch(A) ID(B or 8?)
LUN(B or 8?) Vendor Product Size Synch Bus (Note: This time
it gets a little further, but blurry so not clear if those Bs or 8s)
* Press <Ctrl><A> for SCSISelect T Utility. (Note: <Ctrl><A> does
nothing)
o This time it shows . Slot Ch ID LUN Vendor Product
Size Synch Bus (Note: Nothing more)
* Press <Ctrl><A> for SCSISelect T Utility. (Note: <Ctrl><A> does
nothing)
o This time it shows . Slot(B1 or 81?) Ch(A) ID(B or 8?)
LUN(B or 8?) Vendor Product Size(17Gb) Synch(ASYN) Bus(B or 8?)
(Note: AAAAAAAH! It finally sees the drive)
o Time-out failure during SCSI Inquiry Command!
o Rescanning for SCSI Devices...
o This time it shows . Slot(B1 or 81?) Ch(A) ID(B or 8?)
LUN(B or 8?) Vendor Product Size Synch (Note: This time it
does not see the drive, same boot cycle)
* Press <Ctrl><A> for SCSISelect T Utility. (Note: <Ctrl><A> does
nothing)
o This time it shows . Slot(B1 or 81?) Ch(A) ID(B or 8?)
LUN(B or 8?) Vendor Product Size(17Gb) Synch(ASYN) Bus(B or 8?)
(Note: AAAAAAAH! It sees the drive again but does not get any further)
PS.. Not that it matters but they all mostly end with. Alert Cover was
previously removed. & strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility
Many of the above boot sequences were repeated more than once as I probably
swapped parts and rebooted at least 2 dozen times last week. Is there any
methodical procedure or tool to troubleshoot a SCSI port? Anything has to
be better than swapping parts and rebooting like a madman.
Thanks for listening
Joseph M. Riccardi
386-451-7607 Cell
Joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:Joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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