HD won't start

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2 total messages Started by Thomas Qwing Tue, 05 Dec 1995 04:53

#104

Author: Thomas Qwing
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 04:53

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I have a HP C3325A hard drive and AHA-2940W SCSI adapter.  Lately,
the hard drive can't seem to bootup. The SCSI adapter says the drive
won't startup and in SCSISelect, when I try to verify the drive, says
"Sense key Not Ready (sense code 2)" or something to that effect.

The drive is divided into 4 partition, /dev/sda1 is OS2 Boot Manager,
/dev/sda2 is a DOS FAT fs, /dev/sda3 is Linux ext2 fs, and /dev/sda4 is
free space.


Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

Re: HD won't start

#105

Author: midn
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 22:57

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Thomas Qwin wrote:
> 
> 
> I have a HP C3325A hard drive and AHA-2940W SCSI adapter.  Lately,
> the hard drive can't seem to bootup. The SCSI adapter says the drive
> won't startup and in SCSISelect, when I try to verify the drive, says
> "Sense key Not Ready (sense code 2)" or something to that effect.
> 
> The drive is divided into 4 partition, /dev/sda1 is OS2 Boot Manager,
> /dev/sda2 is a DOS FAT fs, /dev/sda3 is Linux ext2 fs, and /dev/sda4 is
> free space.
> Any help will be appreciated.
> Thanks
  If you boot from OS/2, add these switches in config.sys at the end of
the line    basedev=AIC7870 /!ET /V /A:0 /I /DM:0 /SM:0 /UR

  The numbers zero 0  after A, DM, SM are the SCSI ID# of your boot HDD.
OS/2 will stop or hang if these switches are missed.
One more problem is that, sometimes the Adaptec adapter needs to low-level
format your HDD to recognize it. I got the same problem with Quantum 1080S
when swiching from Always IN-2000 ISA-SCSI to AHA-2940W

Hope this is some info. Good success !

Allen

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