2850 disk problem / BIOS setup

[Mark Whidby]

Hi,

A 2850, with an LSI logic 53C1030 SCSI controller and 4 disks which
I look after, developed a partial disk fault on the disk with the OS
on it. With the help of a rescue CD, I've cloned the needed partitions
(/boot, / and /var) from that disk onto one of the other disks and the
system is now back up and running.

However, there are still a couple of problems. First, I haven't been
able to make the system boot from the cloned-to disk even though once it
is up it is clearly using all my cloned partitions.  What must I change
in the BIOS to accomplish this? I tried disabling the first disk in the
LSI setup but then the system won't boot and there are no error messages.

The second problem is when the first disk is enabled, there is an error
message at the POST which says "Drive 0 on adapter 0 is predicting a
future failure. The sense qualifier is 02h" and I need to press the
Enter key to allow it to progress. OK, so I know the disk is bad but
I just want to ignore it (which I tried as above by disabling it in
the LSI setup) and run with three disks, so how do I do this? And will
anything I do affect the other two disks which are in a logical volume?

Thanks for any suggestions.

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Mark Whidby
Infrastructure Coordinator (Unix) - Physics/Chemistry/EAES/Mathematics Team
Information Systems
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences