[conspire] (forw) Re: June 25 MP installfest upgrade RH 7.3 PC to Centos56 continuation

[Rick Moen]

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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:28:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: wood eddie <ewood111 at yahoo.com>
To: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
Subject: June 25 MP installfest upgrade RH 7.3 PC to Centos56 continuation
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Hi Rick:

Thanks. Finally got system installed back to RH73 using Buslogic SCSI, shall come this Sat to try install Centos with adaptec 2940 SCSI troubleshoot hardware if/as needed.  System appears ok with mismatched memory (PC2700/PC3200). Had to use SCSI CDROM as terminator for now. May be go to Frys to buy a SCSI terminator later, as now uses 2 Seagate 18GB SCSI drives that requires an external terminator.  

Thx, Eddie


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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:58:50 -0700
From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
To: wood eddie <ewood111 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: June 25 MP installfest upgrade RH 7.3 PC to Centos56
	continuation
Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already.

Quoting wood eddie (ewood111 at yahoo.com):

> Thanks. Finally got system installed back to RH73 using Buslogic SCSI,
> shall come this Sat to try install Centos with adaptec 2940 SCSI
> troubleshoot hardware if/as needed.  System appears ok with mismatched
> memory (PC2700/PC3200). 

Excellent.  _If_ your system has at least one USB port, I would be glad
to help you put my USB-connectable CDR/DVD-R/BluRay burner onto your
RHL73 system long enough to do a full backup of your essential data to
either CDR media or DVD-R media.  Each CDR holds about 700 MB; each
DVD-4 holds about 4.3 GB.  As I've said before, you really ought to
secure a safe archival copy of your essential data before contemplating
a system migration of this fundamental a nature.

This one time, I will be glad to give you media from my supplies.  It's
not difficult to do the job, though you may or may not have usable
CD-burning utilities inside RHL73.  We might need to boot your system
from a live CD (in my CABAL library set) to do the backup job.  No huge
problem, anyway, I think.

> Had to use SCSI CDROM as terminator for now. May be go to Frys to buy
> a SCSI terminator later, as now uses 2 Seagate 18GB SCSI drives that
> requires an external terminator.  

On the basis of personal experience, do _not_ expect Fry's to be able to
give you anything approaching competent help, advice, or components for
SCSI.  

If the device (hard drive?) at the end of your SCSI chain is really
unable to provide termination -- and I have my doubts about that -- then
I'd suggest that your best course of action is to visit HSC in Sunnyvale
(link provided previously; just off the corner of Central and Lawrence)
and find a SCSI ribbon cable with an active terminator hard-wired onto
the end.

Fry's is going to be a total loss; trust me on that one.  They don't
know SCSI from Shinola.

I am unclear on whether you are saying you solved the previous problem
with recogntion of devices on your Adaptec AHA-2940, but I suppose I'll
learn more on Saturday.


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