SMMARY: busy bit

From: Helen Petropoulos (elenip@u.washington.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 04 2008 - 13:05:41 EST


Rich Kulawiec solved this problem, thanks Rich. Thanks also to rascal
and to
Ric Anderson and the rest of the sunmanagers group.

ep

>
> Unless I'm mistaken, the "busy bit" refers to the controller's view
> of the disk: that is, it equates to something like "the disk is busy
> and you can't talk to it right now". I don't believe it's actually
> a bit of data on the disk, like something in the boot block or in
> the structure of the filesystem or in a file.
>
> Have you tried completely powering the system off and on? If there's
> a bit stuck in a piece of hardware that can be cleared that way,
> perhaps
> that will work. (If it does -- run a backup!)
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