steve%prd.co.uk@localhost writes: > I have a venerable old machine that has never progressed beyond release 4.0, > and has been little used in the past two or three years. I set about > copying everything from its disks onto a portable drive, but the > process failed part way through, and now the machine will not boot. > Three long beeps suggest to me that there is a memory failure. > > So I tried putting the disks in a caddy to read them that way, but > although the machine I am using to read them (amd64-7.0) recognises > the caddy as a SCSI device, I get: > Aug 21 16:01:49 myservcer /netbsd: sd2(umass2:0:0:0): Check Condition > on CDB: 0x00 00 00 00 00 00 > Aug 21 16:01:49 myservcer /netbsd: SENSE KEY: Not Ready > Aug 21 16:01:49 myservcer /netbsd: ASC/ASCQ: Medium Not Present > > I have used this caddy to read other disks successfully; the disks > spin up, but attempts to read the label or mount them result in > "operation not supported by device" messages, e.g. > > # disklabel sd2 > disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Operation not supported by device > > I have wondered about jumpers on the drives, or some kind of format > incompatibility. I can hunt around for another antique machine to > try them in, but I would welcome any wisdom you may care to offer. My guess is that the disk has failed. But, I have seen situations where some USB/IDE adaptors work, and some don't. So I would indeed recommend trying another old machine.
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