[KLUG Members] re: taken Nightshade

[Mike Williams]

>Message: 1
>From: Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>
>To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
>Date: 21 Apr 2002 19:17:22 -0400
>Subject: [KLUG Members] I drank some Nightshade.....
>Reply-To: members@kalamazoolinux.org

[snip]
>What the pit-bull spit is going on?
>
>How can three different SCSI controllers not work on this board?  Or
>work but be hopelessly useless?  When everything works in the other
>box.....  I did try moving boards to different slots, not using
>various
>boards, every possible combination.  Nothing had any effect.  Various
>things would work for some short random period of time, and then the
>whole contraption would dump again
>
>Any idea?

Well, just a couple of basic things.  Sorry, but they're all I can think 
of.  Possibility 1:  I'm not familiar with the motherboards in question 
here, so is it possible that they're using a different motherboard chipset? 
 If that's true, and you built a custom kernel for the old one it might not 
work properly with the Nightshade.  Possibility 2:  Sounds like you've got 
a VERY heavily loaded machine there, with the multiple SCSI cards and a 
stack of drives.  A power supply "approved for the Nightshade" might not 
have enough juice to run the Nightshade AND all that other stuff.  You 
might try dropping in the biggest, beefiest power supply you can find.  I 
have seen cases where a motherboard with a too-small power supply will boot 
and install fine, but won't have enough power to run anything in the PCI 
bus.