Thanks to the three Toms:
Thomas Sjolshagen and Dr Thomas Blinn of HP and Tom Linden.
As I suspected it is either a bad disk or a bad SCSI controller, most
probably the disk. I will carry out the suggestions offered to see
which it is (e.g. add another disk to see if it is recognized).
Regards,
Peter
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> Hi:
>
> We have a five year old Compaq Professional Workstation XP1000 (Tru64
> Unix v4.0f) which crashed and won't reboot. It gives the message:
> (boot dka0.0.0.6.1 -flags a)
> failed to open dka0.0.0.6.1
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
> Peter Stern
> Chemical Physics Department
> Weizmann Institute of Science
> 76100 Rehovot, ISRAEL
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> email: Peter.Stern_at_weizmann.ac.il
> phone: 972-8-9342096
> fax: 972-8-9344123
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