From: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton) Subject: Re: Q about Seagate SCSI controller ST02 Date: 20 Nov 1992 11:31:07 GMT
In article <1992Nov19.230726.16466@colorado.edu> drew@juliet.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
> >
> >I recently bought a used Seagate ST02 SCSI Host (Bios Revision 3.2).
> >During POST it first prints out something like "Seagate ST02 bios 3.2"
> >, and then the cryptic message "SCSI Adaptor Failure" comes up.
> >
> >Does this indicate a hardware failure, or does it simply indicate that i have
>
> Yes.
No - this error message comes up when the host adaptor can't find any SCSI disks
connected to it. I don't know how you can stop it from doing this, other than by
connecting a disk. However, AFAIR the machine should still boot after a 30 second
or so delay - at least, my machine does :-)
If the error message doesn't come up when a SCSI disk is connected (and correctly
terminated), then the adaptor *is* faulty :-(
Cheers,
- Alan.
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