[rescue] on the subject of the 4D/xx...

[Dan Debertin]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
>
> Ack! As I figured. I don't know what the issue is with that drive but neither
> SGI or HP boxes seem to like those drives even though they are supposed to be
> 512 byte block and are for sure Sun bootable.

The thing that's nagging me is that not only does the 4D refuse to boot
from it, but IRIX also spits out the same errors when I try to mount the
drive. So, it doesn't sound like a blocksize issue to me at all, but
something of a SCSI-ish nature.

I'm home now, so I've had a change to write the stuff down. The PROM
reports:

sc0,6,0: cmd=0x28 timeout after 10 sec
	Resetting SCSI bus
   error on vh read
dksc(0,6,8)sashIP12: is not a bootable file

If I boot into IRIX, even then the drive is not usable:
WARNING: wd93 Bus=0 ID=6 LUN=0: SCSI cmd=0x0
	timeout after 5 sec. Resetting SCSI bus.

And yet, 'hinv' reports a SCSI CDROM at ID 6, so it sees *something*
there. wtf.

In any case, given that there are No User-Serviceable Parts Inside (tm),
it sounds like I'm screwed anyway, regardless of the explanation.

Dan D.
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