[svlug] Booting SCSI - no MBR

[Rafael Skodlar]

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Walter Reed wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Walter Reed wrote:
> <a bunch of stuff about replacing an old SCSI drive with a new one.>
> 
> Well, I was noticing that after installing Slackware, I was getting drive
> errors from fsck. The drive has an SCA port, and Fry's includes a cheap

There is nothing special about the adapter to be expensive.

> little SCA to power / SCSI / Jumper adapter. It looks like that stupid
> little adapter doesn't have a jumper for termination, just terminator
> power (it was labeled TPR). From the store display, I assumed that the
> adapter was from Quantum. It's not. 

Is the drive 8.6GB Atlas II? I bought a drive at Fry's about 10 days ago. 
I installed it on my P120 with Adaptec SCSI on motherboard. I just
repartitioned it and had only one problem: when I tried to create a
partition bigger than 4GB I got error Writing inode tables:  513/
536Segmentation fault. I guess the limit is 512 inodes. Using smaller
partitions (2.2GB) all works fine. 

I tested it with backing up my home dir of about 130MB to the new drive. 
No errors. I believe that the drive is good no need to trash it.

Looking at the 4 page manual that came with the drive: 2 jumpers shown on
page 2 are for the termination. I can't take a PC apart right now but can
check it for you tomorrow in case you can't get it to work.

One option would be to use external terminator which you would need to
buy somewhere.

I believe that drives were a good deal. I like SCA connectors. The drive
has an LED too.

> 
> The ball of wax is going back to Fry's tomorrow (I know, I know, but they
> were convenient. Serves me right.)
> 
> For those of you who haven't had the pleasure of shopping at Fry's,
> the Moral of my story is "Never Ever buy anything from Fry's. Not even a
> power cord."
> 

I stopped buying there for the company but privately still buy things that
come in original boxes.

I wonder how long is it going to take for Fry's to sue SVLUG or cause
other problems in relation to the comments on this list. Some people PANIC
when you negatively comment on this list. 

   Rafael


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