Re: Problems installing to SparcStation5

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 07:32:19PM +0100, Frank Wißmann wrote:
> Well, after proceeding and escaping to the shell I entered "disklabel 
> sd0". The message was: "disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Operation not 
> supported by device".

And no message from the kernel ?

> Seems to me as if the HD is somehow infunctional.

Yes, I fear this disk is dead. Even if it starts stopped, the kernel
should send a start unit command on first read. I suspect the drive
really can't be started.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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