Re: Freeze-up on format on UDB?

["Brian Bosley" <iown inficad com>]

Hey, if you come up with any solutions for your UDB I'm having the exact
same problem, I've posted to the alpha Linux news group with no success.. I
have tried a 2940 (uw, and normal) with active term on an external Seagate
drive, also an IBM..

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> From: Ben T. Eisemann <ben@eisemann.com>
> To: axp-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Freeze-up on format on UDB?
> Date: Sunday, May 10, 1998 11:14 AM
> 
> (hardware config lies below)
> While attempting an install of Redhat 5.0 on my UDB I can get as far as
> formating the hard disk but it locks up (actually just freezes, i can
still
> alt+F1,alt+F2...) while writing inode tables: 7/241.  I have tested the
> hard drive in another machine and it works fine.  I have tested another
> hard drive in the UDB with the same outcome.  I have tried creating new
> installation disks, but again the same outcome.  I have even tried
> inserting a new scsi (an aha-2940uw) in the pci slot and still the same
> outcome. I have tried multiple configurations of the scsi chain with the
> same outcome.  I read in one of the HOWTO's that any problems
(termination,
> cabling, etc) with the scsi chain will unveil themselves during the
> formatting process due to the intensity of the formatting process.  Is
this
> true, or can they be discovered earlier?
> I have not yet attempted terminating the bus with an active terminator, i
> have tried to use the built in termination of my scsi hard disk.
> 
> Thanks for all your help,
> 
> Ben T. Eisemann
> 
> System: 166mhz UDB
> SCSI Card: NCR 810
> Hard disk: Seagate Barracuda 2 ST12550N
> CD-ROM: Nec CDR-1410
> 
> 
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