[rescue] Sun 4/40 External HDD SCSI timeout

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Giuseppe Francesco INDELLI <indelli at unict.it>
" 
" 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 !

next thing i'd do is try a boot -s, and if that works, reconnect
external and try boot -s again.  then try fsck etc. on external.
format can also help.

it's looking like the external has failed.  slice h is usually home
directories, but you might have a system-critical fs on there too...

" 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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