From: Lee, Janet (janet.lee@nist.gov)
Date: Thu Aug 08 2002 - 11:42:31 EDT
Many thanks to all who replied:
Matt Morris
Craig Johnson
Joseph Salzer
Tim Cook
Jon Carter
Scott Thornberry
Thomas Jeber
Ansy Cranston
Michael Lampi
Jeff Cleverly
Bill Hassell
James Banston
Eef Hartman
The general consensus was that my harddrive had suffered some mechanical
breakdown. I also had one of the engineers listen to it, and he thought it
was possibly a ball bearing going. Although there were many suggestions on
how to resurrect the drive, I went the easy route and restored from my
backup to a spare disk (yah Omniback).
Janet
-----Original Message-----
From: Lee, Janet [mailto:janet.lee@nist.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 11:35 AM
To: 'hpux-admin@dutchworks.nl'
Subject: [HPADM] dead harddrive?
Hi all--
I have an older HP-UX machine with an external SCSI harddrive. It died in
the middle of the night and now it won't boot up. It gets hung up while it
is looking for a bootable device. It finds the drive when searching for
bootable devices, but if you ask it to boot to that drive, the computer
hangs. When you first turn the drive on, it sounds like it's spinning up,
but stops spinning after about 30 seconds.
I've tried reseating all components in the computer and drive, and swapping
out the SCSI cable.
I'm planning to restore this machine to a new drive, but does this
description sound like a definitive problem with the drive, the external
chassis, the SCSI controller, etc.? Should I tried something else first?
Thanks,
Janet
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