larsen@mace.princeton.edu (Michael Larsen) (01/16/91)
A couple of weeks ago, I became the proud owner of a new '030 cube. Today it failed to boot from the OD. I powered on, waited for system test and then inserted the OD as usual. The OD icon spun for about one second and then stopped. The magic command-sequences and power off keys did nothing, so I pulled the plug. Next, I powered on and interrupted the boot sequence with command-~. I tried bod -s from the monitor. Result: the boot sequence got as far as informing me that I have 16 buffers containing .12M of memory and then stopped. No sound of a spinning disc. So what's wrong? Is it a bad optical drive unit? A bad OD? I'm still under warranty, but I hate to have to pack up the damn thing and haul it off to UPS if that can be avoided. Can anyone offer any pointers? -Michael Larsen