Subject: Re: disk failure/hot swap
To: Pete Vickers <pete.vickers@uk.adtranz.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/09/2001 20:17:10
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 05:23:25PM +0000, Pete Vickers wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> quick query.. not sure it's o/s [NetBSD 1.4.2] or h/w [DEC alpha 5000 with NCR
> SCSI card] related...
> 
> basically I started getting the error below, so i assumed a disk was dying,
> therefore I [feeling brave & not having down-time available]...
> 
> - umounted it
> - physically pulled the disk
> - inserted a new disk
> - since it's the same as the other disks, i tried:
>      - 'disklabel sd4 > image.bin'
>      - then, 'disklabel -R sd5 image.bin'
> - at this point was was expecting to then do a newfs etc & mount it...
> 
> but instead it got the other error below. Throughout this all other disk on the
> same SCSI bus & backplane contiune to be fine. Am I asking to much of the h/w
> here without using a RAID controller ? [I have one but there is no NetBSD driver
> for it] or am I just being stupid ?
> 
> any thoughts or comments invited.

maybe you have SCSI term problems ? Did the previous disk have a terminator ?
Does this one have one ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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