Need Help: IBM x365 won't recognize hard disks or CDROM

I bought an IBM x365 from eBay (that's itself a problem, I know, but
let's put that aside for now) that upon boot does not recognize any of
the 3 SCSI disks and the CDROM. The controller is on LUN 7, which is
recognized just fine, but complains of "SCSI BIOS not installed",
because it's not able to find any bootable devices attached to the
controller.

Could this be a configuration issue or do I need to open the box to
fix this? I've Google'd enough on this topic, but can't seem to find a
solution I figured I'd post here to see if there're any hardware/SCSI
gurus who could point me to the right direction.

Any help would be highly appreciated!

Thanks,
-- Ankur

Ankur wrote:

> I bought an IBM x365 from eBay (that's itself a problem, I know, but
> let's put that aside for now) that upon boot does not recognize any of
> the 3 SCSI disks and the CDROM. The controller is on LUN 7, which is
> recognized just fine, but complains of "SCSI BIOS not installed",
> because it's not able to find any bootable devices attached to the
> controller.
>
> Could this be a configuration issue or do I need to open the box to
> fix this? I've Google'd enough on this topic, but can't seem to find a
> solution I figured I'd post here to see if there're any hardware/SCSI
> gurus who could point me to the right direction.
>
> Any help would be highly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> -- Ankur

I think that will depend on the controller. Some of them (Adaptec,
notably) have a setup program you can invoke by a key combination
during boot that allows, e.g., selecting which drives are to be
considered bootable.

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On May 20, 2:39 pm, CJT <abujl...@prodigy.net> wrote:
> I think that will depend on the controller. Some of them (Adaptec,
> notably) have a setup program you can invoke by a key combination
> during boot that allows, e.g., selecting which drives are to be
> considered bootable.
>

I tried that already with Ctrl-I and Ctrl-A; not much dice. From what
I can see, there are 3 RAID controllers available -- the onboard SCSI,
LSI/Adaptec and IBM ServeRAID. Someone suggested that there could be a
race condition between the controllers that's causing the system to
not recognize the CDROM. The disks are not recognized simply because
they do not have not been partitioned or have a boot sector in them.
In any case, I think the IDE CDROM should be recognized no matter
what. I'm starting to think that the physical drive is bad.

Thoughts?

Ankur wrote:
> On May 20, 2:39 pm, CJT <abujl...@prodigy.net> wrote:
>
>>I think that will depend on the controller. Some of them (Adaptec,
>>notably) have a setup program you can invoke by a key combination
>>during boot that allows, e.g., selecting which drives are to be
>>considered bootable.
>>
>
>
> I tried that already with Ctrl-I and Ctrl-A; not much dice. From what
> I can see, there are 3 RAID controllers available -- the onboard SCSI,
> LSI/Adaptec and IBM ServeRAID. Someone suggested that there could be a
> race condition between the controllers that's causing the system to
> not recognize the CDROM. The disks are not recognized simply because
> they do not have not been partitioned or have a boot sector in them.
> In any case, I think the IDE CDROM should be recognized no matter
> what. I'm starting to think that the physical drive is bad.
>
> Thoughts?

It's an IDE CD-ROM drive? You didn't say that before.

You probably need to go into the PC's BIOS and change the boot order
so the IDE drive precedes the SCSI chain.

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"Ankur" <> wrote in message
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>I bought an IBM x365 from eBay (that's itself a problem, I know, but
> let's put that aside for now) that upon boot does not recognize any of
> the 3 SCSI disks and the CDROM. The controller is on LUN 7, which is
> recognized just fine, but complains of "SCSI BIOS not installed",
> because it's not able to find any bootable devices attached to the
> controller.
>
> Could this be a configuration issue or do I need to open the box to
> fix this? I've Google'd enough on this topic, but can't seem to find a
> solution I figured I'd post here to see if there're any hardware/SCSI
> gurus who could point me to the right direction.
>
> Any help would be highly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> -- Ankur
>
When it POSTs are 3 drives detected, or one, by a RAID controller? It
would be helpful to open it up and look where the SCSI drives are connected.

Mike.

I tried that already with Ctrl-I and Ctrl-A; not much dice. From what
I can see, there are 3 RAID controllers available -- the onboard SCSI,
LSI/Adaptec and IBM ServeRAID. Someone suggested that there could be a
race condition between the controllers that's causing the system to
not recognize the CDROM. The disks are not recognized simply because
they do not have not been partitioned or have a boot sector in them.
In any case, I think the IDE CDROM should be recognized no matter
what. I'm starting to think that the physical drive is bad.

try taking the drives out of it thin boot it up see if it comes up with a different message then turn it off put the drives back in turn it on, some times this fixes the problem in the old IBM Thinkpads remember to unplug and take the battery out ween you put the drives in and out. thx