zsd@PIG.DREA.DND.CA (Jim Diamond) (01/19/91)
Hello: 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
xiaoyan@ecf.toronto.edu (XIAO Yan) (01/19/91)
In article <9101181819.AA01089@pig.drea.dnd.ca> zsd@PIG.DREA.DND.CA (Jim Diamond) writes: >Hello: > >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 have the same experience, but I was told that this error message is due to the head position of the harddisk, which happens to in a wrong position. I just push the reset button again, and if I am in auto-boot mode, then I just have to wait and system reboot again. xiao <xiaoyan@ecf.toronto.edu>