gorangio@pitstop.West.Sun.COM (Gregg Orangio) (05/25/89)
No, no luck yet in getting the poor rascal to boot. Thanks to everyone suggesting that a good knock on the disk or prolonged power-on may remedy the problem, but none of that worked. It appears that one of two things has happened: a) the boot blocks are munged, or b) the disk heads won't move (the disk is spinning). To try to prove "a)" i'd like to boot the system from floppy. I've tried using the "Floppy Boot Disk; ver 3.5 2 of 19" and "Floppy File System Diks; ver 3.5 3 of 19", but it always fails attempting to access the hard disk during the read of the "Floppy FIle System". Does anybody know how to boot ONLY with the floppies??? If I am able to boot on the floppies, does anybody know if I can then access the hard disk? Can I restore the boot blocks?? As for case "b)", I seem to remember reading here (comp.sys.att) that someone had experienced problems with Seagate disks. Does anyone remember? On another note: Has anyone installed a Micropolis 1325 hard drive onto (not into) a UNIx-pc? I know it is an 8 head drive and I still have a P3...P5 unit, but can I use it without hardware mods?? Can I use it WITH hardware mods?? Thanks in advance for all suggestions. Gregg Orangio Sun Microsystems Inc. Visualization Products Group Research Triangle Park, NC 27709 sun!sunpix!gregg or gorangio@sun.com