Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 08:50:13 -0500 (EST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! My Disks Are GONE... Message-ID: <XFMail.981105085013.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <199811050451.UAA04108@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith, On 05-Nov-98 you wrote: > > The 164LX cannot find the disks after make installworld and a reboot. > > They are simply gone. > > > > the console monitor simply looks for dka0.2000.0 or some such and never > > finds it. The floppy disks seem to still be there. > > Sounds like the NVRAM may be spooged. What if you try booting an > explicit disk (boot dka0)? Same junk. when powering up it says ``waiting for dka0.2000.0 to poll''. I tried to put another disk in (a seagate baracuda), and it immediately said ``Cannot open dka0.2000.0'' which means to me that it sees the controller, and the controller sees the disks. But, I think you are right; It appears to me that (in the traditional DEC ways) the NVRAM contains some very explicit information and something got confused. > > For a while, it would boot from the disks, only to hang in the device > > scan. > > Now, the console (SRM?) cannot find the disks. > > > > Any idea is welcome. I got lots of work accomplished there... > > Bad, very bad. Board under warranty? Who knows. I borrowed the machine. Do you think the disks are transferrable to another machine? OR is there some black magic involved in adding a disk to one of these creations? Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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