I have and alpha server 1000 running du 4.0f. A few hours ago it
stopped responding to keyboard and network and had to be shutdown, now
the system wont boot to multi user, it hangs at a different point each
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time while starting up services. I can boot to single user OK.
The system has a raid disk set which has reported soft errors like:
The hard disk at channel 1, target 0 had a soft error.
but not always on the same disk but always soft errors.
I have booted to single user mode and ran a parity check on the raid
logical drives, no inconsistancys were found.
When the machine hangs it sound like it's trying to read from the
disks (I can here the sound but there is no light for the activity)
Im about to redo the parity check and add the flag for a list of bad
blocks.
The /var/adm/messages file had binary chars in it.
Any ideas please
BB
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Received on Thu Jul 20 2000 - 11:57:28 NZST