Nick Smith wrote:

>so what is the next step since dmesg doesnt show the drives? im just
>the ID's are correct and not conficting.  the machine bios does see
>the drives.  i havnt figured out a way to get into the card bios yet,
>on an intel machine you have the option of hitting F6, nothing like
>that shows on the Alpha machine....
>  
>
This sounds like a SCSI problem.  You'll have to check IDs,
cabling, termination, host adapter firmware, the whole lot.

Try connecting one drive at a time and see what the kernel
displays.  I've seen a faulty SCSI device prevent the whole chain
from working.

I doubt that it's a kernel problem, since one drive is detected.
If *no* drives were detected, then I'd suspect the kernel.
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