Help with Fujitsu Hard Drive

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2 total messages Started by Jim Brooking Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:09

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Author: Jim Brooking
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:09

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We have a Fujitsu M2652SA hard drive mounted externally on
a cube.  The Fujitsu is 2.0 gb (unformatted), and is acting
as a network server disk.

There is a recurring problem wherein the cube panics without
warning.  No one needs to be logged in to the cube for the panic
to happen.

When rebooting, fsck fails, so we run it manually.  The Fujitsu
winds up with a ton of duplicate INodes and other problems which
wind up causing a loss of data.

Does anyone know why this is happening?  We're running 3.0, and
the cube is rebooted daily.  I realize the explaination is sort 
of sparse, but it's all we can get at the moment.

Any assistance would be appreciated!  8^)

Thanks
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jimb@access.digex.com  | (Cage) 1991 323se     ZCP-710   |     Comus Road
Merry Land (MD) U.S.A. | (Bike) 1986 GSXR750    (sold)   |     ClarksBURG
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Re: Help with Fujitsu Hard Drive

#1344

Author: John Jay Feiler
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 02:51

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In article <1hvr1uINNsgv@mirror.digex.com> jimb@access.digex.com (Jim  
Brooking) writes:
> We have a Fujitsu M2652SA hard drive mounted externally on
> a cube.  The Fujitsu is 2.0 gb (unformatted), and is acting
> as a network server disk.
> 
> There is a recurring problem wherein the cube panics without
> warning.  No one needs to be logged in to the cube for the panic
> to happen.
> 
> When rebooting, fsck fails, so we run it manually.  The Fujitsu
> winds up with a ton of duplicate INodes and other problems which
> wind up causing a loss of data.
> 
> Does anyone know why this is happening?  We're running 3.0, and
> the cube is rebooted daily.  I realize the explaination is sort 
> of sparse, but it's all we can get at the moment.
> 
> Any assistance would be appreciated!  8^)

Sorry, I don't have any helpful suggestions, but misery loves company, and  
I'm having problems with the same model drive.

I can get it mounted fine, and can do simple operations, such as creating  
files, deleting files, etc.  Whenever I try to do something more, like  
copying an entire directory tree, the system hangs.  I don't get the NMI  
monitor or anything obvious, not panics, but any filesystem activity is  
completely hosed.  Funny thing is, the workspace process is still fine, and I  
can move the windows around, bring them forward, etc.  If I'm running  
KPerfMon, I can see that all disk activity has stopped, but the statistics  
keep being gathered, and the little graph keeps truckin' along.

Have you changed any of the jumper settings on your drive to get it to work?   
Perhaps there's some kind of incompatibility between NeXT's SCSI and this  
model drive.  Or maybe Fujitsu produced a flaky run of drives of this model.

If anybody has any useful suggestions, I'm all ears  (so to speak.....)

	John

> 
> Thanks
> -- 
> jimb@access.digex.com  | (Cage) 1991 323se     ZCP-710   |     Comus Road
> Merry Land (MD) U.S.A. | (Bike) 1986 GSXR750    (sold)   |     ClarksBURG
>  
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