Re: Problems installing to SparcStation5

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <4B589DB3.1060902%web.de@localhost>,
Frank Wißmann  <frank.wissmann41%web.de@localhost> wrote:
>Manuel Bouyer schrieb:
>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 06:54:27PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote:
>>>> Can you collect the boot message of the system and send it there ?
>>>> Either cut-n-paste from a serial console, or getting the output of
>>>> 'dmesg' over the network.
>>>>
>>> Well, I'll do it by hand :-(.
>>>
>>> dmesg says:
>>> sd0 at scsibus0 target 3 lun 0: <Quantum, FB1080J SUN1.05, 6300> disk fixed
>>> sd0:(esp0:0:3:0): not ready, data = 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00
>>> sd0: drive offline
>>> sd0: sync (100.00ns offset 8) 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers
>> 
>> And nothing after that ? What happens after a 'disklabel sd0' ?
>> 
>
>Well, after proceeding and escaping to the shell I entered "disklabel 
>sd0". The message was: "disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Operation not 
>supported by device".
>Seems to me as if the HD is somehow infunctional.
>

issue a scsictl start command to it, or disklabel -r sd0?

christos