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Re: Problems installing to SparcStation5



On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 07:54:06PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote:
> >
> >>Seems to me as if the HD is somehow infunctional.
> >
> >Yes, I fear this disk is dead. Even if it starts stopped, the kernel
> >should send a start unit command on first read. I suspect the drive
> >really can't be started.
> >
> 
> I try another one I still have just to be sure it is the HD and - 
> hopefully - not the SCA connector.

It's most likely the HD. It's not uncommon for a used HD which has
been down for some time to fail to spin up. I've seen several, and
the kernel messages you see looks familiar :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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