[rescue] Sun 4/40 External HDD SCSI timeout

[Giuseppe Francesco INDELLI]

Hello,

Below you will find what happens booting IPC SPARCstation with the 
external drive disconnected.

Messages at boot are reported below:

......
checking filesystems
/dev/rsd0a
/dev/rsd0a
/dev/rsd0g
/dev/rsd0g

After a long pause system response:

Can't open /dev/rsd3h
(null): CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM.
(null): UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck
             MANUALLY.

Reboot failed ... help !

Best regards

Giuseppe


Il 03/09/2013 13:47, Sandwich Maker ha scritto:
> " From: Giuseppe Francesco INDELLI <indelli at unict.it>
> "
> " Hi All,
> "
> " I have a Sun 4/40, SPARCstation IPC, equipped with two 207MB HDD SCSI
> " configured as follows:
> "
> " Target  0 (internal disk)
> " Unit 0        Disk        QUANTUM PD210S        SUN0207492W0492W2SS
> "
> " Target  3 (external disk)
> " Unit 0        Disk        CONNER CP30200        SUN020742349229P9BRV
> "
> " At SPARCstation power on, the system hangs during booting just after the
> " following line:
> "
> " esp0:    Target 0 now Synchronous at 3.572 mb/s max transmit rate
> "
> " The system hangs in the line above for about one minute, then the
> " following line message appears:
> "
> " esp0:    polled command timeout
> "
> " Then the system rebooting automatically.
> "
> " Please, any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> my first suspicion - the internal drive has failed / is failing.  also
> possible: the polled cmd timeout could be for target 3.
>
> what happens if you try booting with the external drive disconnected?
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