[parisc-linux] Can't write to hard drives on a K200

[Joe Emenaker]

Michael S. Zick wrote:
> On Tue September 26 2006 18:38, Joe Emenaker wrote:
>   
>> Well, there's another option. I could plug the drives into a SCSI card 
>> on a PC... but I've tried that, and I can't get that to work. If someone 
>> wants to help me with *that*, I'd appreciate that as well, since I 
>> clearly don't understand all of the intricacies of SCSI, because I 
>> couldn't get the PC to recognize the drive(s). I *think* it had to do 
>> with the drives being (apparently) "single-ended"... but I don't know.
>>     
> It is hard to say - 
> ...
> Still with me?
> differential comes in two flavors - High Voltage and Low Voltage
> I am guessing from the chip's age that its version of differential is HVD.
>   
I think that's what the problem is. My PC cards are LVD and I think the 
drives are HVD.
> Another thing to consider - as I recall, the dmesg of your machine has 
> reported two SCSI controllers - the one not using the ncr53c driver has
> only the CD-ROM on it - you might consider adding a drive 
> (of the proper type - check your dmesg) to the scsi chain with the 
> CD-ROM on it.
>   
This actually works! I rummaged around for an old drive with a IDC50 
connector, and I put it where the 2nd CD-ROM would go, and I'm able to 
partition and I'm installing Gentoo as we speak... but we're not out of 
the woods. I still gotta get the drive-array going....
> Another thing that might be worth trying - DD your live-cd image onto
> one of the hard drives - if there are no read/write problems with DD, 
> it should work.
>   
Tried that. Got never-ending screens of errors scrolling past. I'll look 
more into it once I get the get the install to the spare drive working...

- Joe
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