I've got a Alphaserver 1000 running Digital Unix V4.0D that stopped
responding to telnet requests. I went to the console to login and cannot
get a prompt. The screen is scrolling error messages such as.
Deferring I/O (errno 5) for block 0x40,0x40 on device 8,1030
Deferring I/O (errno 5) for block <these numbers are changing> on device
8,1030
occasionally I get the same message except (errno -1). The machine is still
responding to http requests...it has two drives in it. One has a solid
green light, the other is blinking. I'm guessing the blinking is the drive
trying to read...ie. dead hard drive. Before I buy a new hard drive does
anyone know what else might be causing this?
Kenneth Haner
khaner_at_houston.oao.com
Received on Mon Mar 12 2001 - 22:33:49 NZDT