Thank you all for your help... I know it was a lot to ask... I was grasping...
"Time of death called at 5:50pm, Monday March 5th."
I tried everything, replacing disk, replacing cables, hard reset, removing
all external drives.
It still resulted in a partial boot, then when it went to use swap and run
fsck... timeouts...
I've conceded that the scsi controller on-board this old motherboard went
bad, and repair would take too much time and too costly for such an old
machine...
Good thing is, all user data was already moved to a new server, and all the
disks/email/data on this machine is still good.
So I've started the mess of moving each service this one did to a new
server. The users are screaming, but being somewhat patient.
Thanks again,
Dan
>HELP!
>Our main system went down last night and I tried to reboot and got a scsi
>timeout on target 0. So perhaps the boot drive is bad? I moved it to
>another system and it saw the partitions ok. I put it back and same
>timeout. I have since made another boot hard drive from backup tapes and
>that one wont boot either.
>I've tried changing scsi cables, and tried eliminating every other scsi
>device except the boot.
>
>It does find the drive, and bootstrap, and goes through some of the
>beginning boot steps... it gets this far...
>
>...
>dli: configured
>cam_logger: CAM_ERROR packet
>cam_logger: bus 0 target 0 lun 0
>ss_perform_timeout
>timeout on disconnect request
>
>I'm at a loss now since I dont think it's a bad hard drive.
>Maybe motherboard hardware failure!?
>We do not have any system hardware agreement.
>(PS this is a Digital Alpha 250 4/266 running Digital Unix v4.0B)
>
>Any ideas!???
>Thanks...
>Frantic Dan
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Dan Kirkpatrick dkirk_at_phy.syr.edu
Computer Systems Manager
Department of Physics
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
http://www.phy.syr.edu/~dkirk Fax: (315) 443-9103
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Received on Wed Mar 07 2001 - 21:45:19 NZDT