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- Path: sparky!uunet!well!well.sf.ca.us!gaarder
- From: gaarder@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Gaarder)
- Subject: Re: Disk problem with Sparc 2 and Wren IV
- Message-ID: <gaarder.727722231@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- References: <C17n05.5sp@well.sf.ca.us>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:03:51 GMT
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- In <C17n05.5sp@well.sf.ca.us> gaarder@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Gaarder) writes:
-
- >I have a CDC/Seagate/Imprimis Wren IV diks drive (94171-327) connected
- >to a SparcStation 2 on which I am trying to install SunOS 4.1.3. I say
- >"trying" because I get occasional fatal "hardware errors" with an error
- >code of 0x44. Also, trying to reformat the disk with "format" gives a
- >rather terse "format failed" message. However, I can run "analyze" on
- >the disk till the cows come home without seeing any errors. Anybody
- >know what's going on?
-
- acb@ziggy.csl.ncsu.edu (Andrew C. Burnette) found the answer: the defect
- list had not been set up correctly. Doing an "extract" and a "commit"
- on the defect list solved the problem. Thanks!
-
- Steven Gaarder Network and Systems Administrator
- gaarder@actech.com A C Technology, Ithaca, N.Y., USA
-