[rescue] hard drive problem: probe sees it, format doesn't

[Arthur Wouk]

jerney towers wrote:
:Hi,
:
:
:
:it says in the notes here:
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:http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_private/Systems/Sun4c/CPU_Station_2.html
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:Install Load Board 501-1667 in systems without a disk drive and SBus cards.
:
:Perhaps your load is too low now with the new disk drive?
:
:Also, be sure that your disk drive has no termination; the internal drives 
:are connected via stubs, and the bus is terminated on the board.
:
:Make sure that you are not supplying terminator power from this disk, see
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:http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/dors/dors_ps.pdf
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:Try making partitions less than 512Mb.
:
:The link below will give you the track, sector, etc values for your disk 
:using its model number:
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:http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q=DORS- 
:32160&uid=hdd193694a9b61f72b3586256756006e33ce&loc=en_US&cs=utf- 
:8&cc=us&lang=en
:
:
:HTH
:
:Jeremy
:
:
:On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 23:26:31 -0700 (MST), Arthur Wouk 
:<awouk at ra.nilenet.com> wrote:
:
:> the noise. so i got the following drive:
:>
:> 	COMPACPCDORS-32160
:>
:> which is an ibm dors-32160 drive which has all the characterisitcs
:> stated above: cool, small, quiet.


well, that can't be it, because at first, the install worked, and i
had a system running with the dors-32160 as the boot disk, but suddenly
it stopped working! i maight suspect a bad drive, but i don't think
so. it just is not recognized.