SCSI disk not seen at startup
 

Hello,

I just bought a couple of Wide SCSI, hotswappable drives for my Proliant 2500.

EDIT: the first one works OK. It didn't work before because I was trying to create a primary partition on it. When I made Extended and then logcal partitions, it worked fine.

The second hard disk isn't recognised at startup and doesn't spin when the system tests the drives at startup.

It gets power, becuse the light goes on when the system check for SCSI drives.

I have verified that it is sitting fine in the caddy.

If it gets power, is it most likkely that the drive is broken?

EDIT: it seems that this drive is broken. I have tested it with a different caddy.

Thanks
Hamish

Yup, sounds like a dead drive...
 

I had a similar problem with my proliant 1850R - I ebayed for a disc drive, but it got damaged in the post. On powerup, it repeatedly tries to spin up but never gets going. Then the green arrow light flickers for a while then the dreaded orange "dead drive" light comes on.

...and stays on.

When this happens the BIOS reports that "no SCSI devices were detected"

I am using the newer (at the time that 1850s were new) black caddies that use an SCA backplane, and connect using the hard drive connector directly without the intermediate SCA > PCB-edge connector assembly.

Hope this helps!

How do you get inot the BIOS of the proliant? I'm using a proliant 2500, and I hit F10, F10, DEL etc all through startup, and never get to a BIOS.

I heard that there is an EXE file to download and install, but that wouldn't necessarily work on my linux machine.

Any suggestions?
Hamish