🚀 go-pugleaf

I had this posted a month or so ago and never got any feedback. It took over a  
month for me to get a check (they don't accept PO's) to Maxtor, but I finally  
got the board in last week, had our Tech Support people swap out the old board  
and put in the new one.  I did an fsck and I'm back in shape without anything  
(so far) missing. One thing I did learn during the month is that a cube with an  
OD (*and* 32 MB of RAM) is a usable machine.  I ran off the 2.0 Distribution  
OD, set up an account for my self, and ran a combination of local and  
NSF-mounted apps. I get 100+ pieces of mail a day, (locally) and run a number  
of apps (like NewsGrazer) off a central NFS server, but I found it quite a  
useful machine. Long Live the OD and the Cube!!

> I have a NeXT (Maxtor) 660 MB drive that has given up the
> ghost as a result of a couple power hits while I was away on
> vacation. Here are the symptoms:
> 
> When I try to boot off the drive, I get the following as part
> of the boot sequence:
> 
> READ CAPACITY: sdcmd bad state:0 dev blk len?
> 
> I was able to boot off the OD, and get the following:
> 
> SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2114000
> MAXTOR  XT-8760S as sd0 at sc0 target 0 lun 0 sd0 (0,0):
> ERROR op:0x25 sd_state:7 scsi status:0x0 ERROR: Can't
> read device capacity ERROR op:0x1a sd_state:7 scsi
> status:0x0 DISK UNFORMATTED Generic SCSI Device as sg0
> at sc0 target 7 lun 7
> 
> and then:
> 
> sd0 (0,0): scsi_timer: timeout op:0x8 sd_state:0 scsi
> status:0x0
> 
> and
> 
>      SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label)
> 
> When I try mounting it  I just get an I/O error
> 
> mount: /dev/sd0a on /mnt: I/O error
> 
>  Of course I have data that was not backed up on the disk,
> that I would like to retrieve. :-(
> 
> Maxtor will sell me a PCBA board controller for the disk
> for $450 (cheaper than the NeXT repair charge, and the
> estimates I have had for salvaging data off the disk). 
> Anyone have an idea if this *might* fix things? Could the
> problem be in the controller and not the media?  Any other
> suggestions?  Anyone seen a Norton UtilitiesLook-Alike
> for a NeXT? 
> 
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Daniel J. Oberst
Director, Advanced Technology and Applications
Computing and Information Technology
Princeton University
116 Prospect Avenue
Princeton, NJ 08544-2089
Phone:	(609) 258-6023
Fax:	(609) 258-1004
Email:	oberst@hitam.princeton.edu (NeXT-mailable)

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Daniel J. Oberst
Director, Advanced Technology and Applications
Computing and Information Technology
Princeton University