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Date:      Fri, 3 Jan 1997 11:30:46 +0100 (MET)
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault)
Cc:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: advice sought - Quantum 2GB Atlas broken
Message-ID:  <199701031030.LAA18567@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199701022101.QAA23157@hda.hda.com> from Peter Dufault at "Jan 2, 97 04:01:01 pm"

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> > When I was out for that 6 days vacation over Chrismas and New Year
> > I switched off that machine - only to do my wife a favor because
> > she always asks me "must these computers run all over the night and day"
> > and lowered the room temperature which may well have been as low as 
> > 10 Degrees Celsius (em er, where is my K&R book ... 50 Degrees Fahrenheit)
> > when I came back. I switched on the computer and the disaster began.
> 
> Boot off another disk to the boot prompt, power on the drive,
> and see if the system can coax a little more info out of the drive
> about what its problem is.

It seems when drive warms up (heats up) the chuck-cluck disappears.
I was able to even mount the drive but trying to dd or tar it
results in an I/O-error. While it is cold the FreeBSD ncr driver
loops with continuous command failures. But the diagnose that it
might have had a head crash seems to me the most probable. Maybe I will
be able to recover some data. Thanks anyway for all the interesting
advice and stories about temperature drift, CPU fans,  and all that :-)

> 
> Peter
> 
> -- 
> Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com)   Realtime Machine Control and Simulation
> HD Associates, Inc.               Voice: 508 433 6936
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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