Re: AS200 hangs on install - Conner 1060 HDD

["Mark O. Stitson" <markst dcs rhbnc ac uk>]

Hi there,

I had a problem with a Conner 1060 SCSI HDD some while ago. Maybe the
following message from Conner Technical Support helps:

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During the past few weeks, we got several calls from customers stating
that they had severe problems with Conner CFP1060x 1GB SCSI drives
using the Linux operating system. Symptoms were corrupt filesystems
(damaged inodes) reported by e2fsck on each system boot and similar
errors.

There is now a fix available for customers with a CFP1060x (microcode
revisions 9WA1.62/1.66/1.68) and Linux. To apply the upgrade, you
will need a DOS boot disk and ASPI drivers that can access the hard
drive. The upgrade downloads new queuing and lookahead code into the
non-volatile SCSI RAM of the drive.

If you are experiencing problems with a disk that has microcode
revision 9WA1.60, you will have to contact your nearest Conner service
centre to get the disk upgraded. The microcode revision can be found
on the label of the drive and on the underside of the drive on a label
on one of the ICs.

If you are confident that you can perform the upgrade yourself, please
contact Conner Technical Support and have your microcode revision
ready. Conner Technical Support Europe can be reached on +44-1294-315333,
Conner Technical Support in the USA can be reached on 1-800-4CONNER.

Regards
Soenke Behrens
European Technical Support

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On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Mark Lachniet wrote:


> Well, after much fiddling I got the installation to work with RH5.0 disks
> (as I posted) but now when I do the install, the system freezes.
> 
> I can do all the partitioning okay, select my packages, and it then does
> the formatting of the partitions (swap and /) and starts the install.
> 
> The problem is that it freezes in different places during the install,
> leaving the system hung with the SCSI HD activity light on.  Sometimes it
> hangs during formatting, but about 50% of the time it will successfully
> format, read in the first few packages, and hang when trying to install a
> bit 13mb library package.  It hangs at different points of this as well,
> sometimes after maybe 1% done, toher times at maybe 40% done.
> 
> I am thinking it is a SCSI problem.
> 
> I have tried two different hard drives (CFP1060s and CFP1080) and two
> different CD-ROM drives.  Same problem.  I have the hard drive internal,
> terminated, the CD external and terminated.  Its very strange.
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark Lachniet
> Director Information Systems
> Holt Public Schools
> 
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