johnj@osiris.UUCP (John Johnston johnj@welch.jhu.edu) (08/02/89)
I have a MACII with 3 Apple 80SC drives hanging off it, at SCSI IDs 1,5, and 6. For some reason, when I try to first access a file system, I get this nice: "Disk Read cXd0s0 Error: Cannot select SCSI Device generic disk cXd0s0 Fatal Error: Logical block 0, physical block 0" and my fsck hangs. Later I can mount it fine, and if I unmount it and fsck it it behaves "normally". I have eliminated (to my satisfaction) the following probable causes: - SCSI IDs. I have tried this with loads of different SCSI Ids. - Hard drive problems. I have tested the drives and used them for MacOs file systems without problem. Not only that, but I have completely replaced and re-formatted all the drives in question at least once. So, anyone have an idea what's going on here ? I've set the flinking thing up "properly", and, as a last resort did it "cookbook" from the AUX systems administrator's reference section on adding and partitioning another disk. I have it partitioned as a single UNIX file system, no MacOs partitions, SCSI driver is present. Is this just ANOTHER undocumented "feature" of AUX ? Lately there has been a lot of AUX flamage in this group. I'd like very much to join in, but I don't think that the engineers who read this group are the problem. Is there any address or E-mailbox that is a proper repository for unsolicited smoking testimonials about AUX ? --mjr(); mjr@welch.jhu.edu