>>Armbruster, David wrote: >> Its a hot plug SCSI drive connected to the 5i RAID Controller. I >> used a little script to engage the scsi once booted but it complains of I/O >> errors and offlines the drive. I can pull a status off the drive with mt, >> but any attempt to write to the drive and its gone until the next boot time. >> Very strange...... > >Is the device terminated properly? That might be the cause of I/O errors. > >Paul. I think so Paul. It was loaded with Win3KSvr and working fine. Something about Fedora does not seem to recognize it on the SCSI bus at boot. I tried doing an engage scsi command on it and the drive appears, but if you attempt anything other than a status command it goes to lunch with an I/O error and off-lines the drive.....very strange.