Supermicro 370DE6

Hi

We're running a Transtec server with a SM370DE6 board.

One of the SCSI discs went bang and since, the SCSI card detects all drives
as ASYN rather than 160 as previously happened.

The SCSI BIOS now refuses to believe that the drives are disc drives - going
to disk utils in SCSISelect it says This is not a hard disc drive.

On the few occasions that we do get the drives recognised correctly, we go
in to the SuSE Linux installer and the setup hangs when detecting hard
discs.

We tried installing the new BIOS 1.2a but after flashing, it just beeps, so
we've restored 1.1a

Any ideas??

Thanks

Alex

Have you double checked termination and SCSI IDs since removing the bad
drive? Have you contacted Supermicro??

Ed

Alex Harrington wrote:
 > Hi
 >
 > We're running a Transtec server with a SM370DE6 board.
 >
 > One of the SCSI discs went bang and since, the SCSI card detects all drives
 > as ASYN rather than 160 as previously happened.
 >
 > The SCSI BIOS now refuses to believe that the drives are disc drives - going
 > to disk utils in SCSISelect it says This is not a hard disc drive.
 >
 > On the few occasions that we do get the drives recognised correctly, we go
 > in to the SuSE Linux installer and the setup hangs when detecting hard
 > discs.
 >
 > We tried installing the new BIOS 1.2a but after flashing, it just beeps, so
 > we've restored 1.1a
 >
 > Any ideas??
 >
 > Thanks
 >
 > Alex
 >
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