[KLUG Members] Server Problem (long)

[Daniel Szalay]

Over the last few months I've been building a home server using RH 7.1 using
a mix of new and used parts. It's a 266Mhz PII with 384 meg of memory and a
32 meg ATI video board. The drive system consists of an Adaptec 29160
controller with three Quantum 9.1 Gig SCSI's in a Raid 5 configuration. Also
connected to this controller is a Seagate Scorpion-24 DDS-3 tape drive. I'm
having a problem accessing this drive.

When I issue the command "mt -f /dev/st0 status" (or any mt command) I
receive no response from the tape drive and my session hangs. I then have to
start a new session and reboot to free up the locked one. I know the drive
works because it's brand new, and prior to loading Linux I installed a copy
of NT 4 to check the hardware (since I have more experience with NT than
Linux), and it worked fine, backing up and restoring. I checked Seagate's
web site and the drive is compatible with Linux. However, the installation
book has several specific setups for the different flavors of Unix involving
jumpers on the drive. No mention of Linux though.

What am I doing wrong?

*** New Problem ***

Apparently through several rounds of hanging and rebooting, the file system
developed errors and I had to run FSCK. It found and repaired LOTS of
problems and I am now able to boot with no errors however, there is one
snag: I cannot load Gnome. It fails with the error "** WARNING **: Unable to
lock ICE authority file: /root/.ICEauthority.

Now what?

Dan :-(