K570, HVD10, HP-PB Bus

[James Owen]

We have a K570 which has only got the PB bus available. According to all manuals etc, an HVD10 should work on this bus, using a HP-PB 16bit Differential Scsi card (28696A).
But it doesn't!
When we ioscan the devices the card is seen, and so are the disks, but they have status 'ERROR'! The termination is fine, because we have tried it on an HSC FWD card and it works.
We need this to work, so any help would be gratefully appreciated
Regards
James

[Vincent Farrugia]

Hello,

What does ioscan say regarding the disks? Does it say NO_HW?

[James Owen]

hello vincent
ioscan reports the disks status as 'ERROR', its the first time I've ever seen this as a hardware status!
we're currently checking the firmware versions of both the disks and interface card, but not sure whether this will solve problem

regards
james

[Vincent Farrugia]

Hello,

When "Error" is shown, it means that the hardware IS responding, but is in an error state.

I guess this has to do with a configuration problem on your HVD10, rather than a hardware fault or a firmware issue.

How is your HVD10 configured? Did you play with the switch settings?

HTH,
Vince

[James Owen]

Job done ta!
The problem was that for the PB bus to see disk over 9Gb the 'disk3' driver needs to be loaded in the kernel!

Regards
James