rka@ccicpg.UUCP ( Robert K Anton) (11/18/88)
I have been experiencing problems booting my unix-pc. The symptoms are failure to boot after system has been off more than a few days. It seems that the longer the system has not been ON the harder it is to boot from hard disk. After going through a few cycles of turning the machine on and off it finally boots. The no. of on/off cycles seems to be proportional to how long the machine has be turned off. I believe that some discussion in this News group has centered on this problem ------ however, until it happens to you the article just gets deleted. I remember some discussion about lubricating the spindle -- this to me seems rather bizzare. Others seem to think that a quick power cycle will do the trick - their philosphy is that the hard disk does no reach to proper RPM in time so if the machine is turned off then on quickly the harddisk will reach proper RPM from the previous momentum i.e. it was still spinning the second time around. Maybe that winter is around the corner my hard disk is stiffing up. I would have thought that Convergent could have provided some more information to the user than those solid chars continously being printed on the screen when the machine doesn't boot. If anybody has some recommendations I'd appreciate them.