zsd@PIG.DREA.DND.CA (Jim Diamond) (01/24/91)
I sent this in a week ago, and haven't heard anything. I realize that the only people likely capable of commenting are people who've worked at SGI more or less since the start. Any of you have a moment to comment? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I have a 3130 with the SGI-supplied (Hitachi?) DK512-17 disk drive as well as a CDC 380 Mbyte drive I installed myself. The system crashed the other day and attempts to boot (off disk) fail with SGI Extent Filesystem hd.0:defaultboot: No such file or directory and attempts to look at the disk with the prom "ls" command return SGI Extent Filesystem can only ls disk or tape devices bad mode for hd.0:/ (0x0) I assumed that the disk was dead, but I tried running sifex (which I have installed on disk 1) by running b si.1:stand/sifex and was surprised to find that, as far as I can see by read tests, updating the label, and copying partition "a" from disk 1 to disk 0, sifex has no problems with the disk. Anyone have any ideas as to what might be wrong, or what I might do to avoid throwing away the Hitachi disk? Thanks. Jim Diamond zsd@pig.drea.dnd.ca