gorangio@pitstop.West.Sun.COM (Gregg Orangio) (05/18/89)
I had my UNIX-PC for about 5 months now. Bought used from an ex-ATT employee. It's been a great system, till lately. I've used it only intermittently(once a week) the first few months. Since I didn't have a good surge-protector, I powered it up and down when I put it to use. Now that I'm using it regularly and got the protection, I've kept it up for about 2-3 weeks. After shutting it down to move it, re-booting failed. Nothing but little filled boxes diplaying on the screen. Sooo, run the diags. I tried the "reboot the system" choice in diags and got the following: #HDERR ST:1 EF:4 CL:FF00 CH:FF00 SN:FF00 SC:FF02 SDH:FF20 SMACNT:FFFF SCRREG:F0 MCRREG:8F00 #HDERR ST:1 EF:4 CL:FF00 CH:FF00 SN:FF00 SC:FF02 SDH:FF20 SMACNT:FFFF SCRREG:F0 MCRREG:8F00 #HDERR ST:1 EF:4 CL:FF00 CH:FF00 SN:FF00 SC:FF02 SDH:FF20 SMACNT:FFFF SCRREG:F0 MCRREG:8F00 panic: iinit Next I ran the entire complement of diags from the sub-system menus since the full system test failed on the hard-drive test. Everything else passes. The hard drive failure was: Test: Hard disk test (Drive 0) Subtest: ??? (seek or read) Error: WINCHESTER: Can't Recal: Response = 10 Enter y[Y] to Abort, Return to continue: So I opened up the case and removed the drive since I was not sure that I could hear it spinning (my fans are louder than the disk). It's a Seagate ST-251 and was spinning fine. After putting everything back together, I re-ran the floppy diags "system reboot". This time the following errors appear: #HDERR ST:51 EF:10 CL:FF00 CH:FF00 SN:FF00 SC:FF02 SDH:FF20 SMACNT:FFFF DCRREG:90 MCRREG:8300 #HDERR ST:51 EF:10 CL:FF00 CH:FF00 SN:FF00 SC:FF02 SDH:FF20 SMACNT:FFFF DCRREG:90 MCRREG:8300 <Note: only two this time> panic:iinit Please record panic message. Press hardware reset to reboot. <press hardware reset> Nothing but "little filled boxes"!! I tried loading in the floppy disk system, but it requires the hard disk!! This doesn't seem right, but everytime it reads the second floppy (Floppy File System) it fails with the above disk errors! HELP!!! Is there a way to boot a mini-UNIX from floppy??? Can I get to my hard disk from there? Of course, I have NOT backed-up everything! Now that would take too much time. I do have most everything on floppies, but I have made some mods (like HDB & PCOMM set-ups, some new code, etc, etc). Is there any way to get some of the stuff off?? Gregg Orangio Systems Software Engineer Sun Microsystems sun!sunpix!gregg Visualization Products Group (919)469-8300 Research Triangle Park, NC
paone@aramis.rutgers.edu (Phil Paone) (05/18/89)
This sounds like what happened to me when I moved my PC a few months back. What I ended up doing was opening the machine and looking at the motherbaord. Sure enough, several chips had loosened and needed to be reseated. It never had any problems again. -- Phil Paone attmail!ppaone !rutgers.edu!topaz.edu!ppaone paone@topaz.rutgers.edu