Re: [foxboro] WP51D with hard drive problems

Tim,

> New to this forum and new to IA systems.  Have done some searching but
> have not found an answer to my problem.

Welcome to our world! ;-)>=20
=20
> Have a WP51D Sun box that constantly cycles through boot sequence when
> attempting to boot.  Gives some error associated with reading from the
> hard disk.  I attempted to do an "ia_install" from the "Day 0" cd but
> when it gets to step where it is supposed to format the hard drive it
> says "unable to format hard disk" and dumps out to "#" prompt.  I have
a
> few questions:

Sorry about your hard drive, but it's only good for a door stop now.


> 1.       The hard drive installed is a Seagate 8.4GB IDE drive.  I
have
> a known good Fujitsu 10GB IDE drive.  I have attempted to install the
> Fuji drive but the "auto_get_size" script in the ia_install fails and
> dumps me out to the # prompt.  Can I install this drive?
>=20
> 2.       How do I format a drive of any size in a WP51D box? A better
> question is how do I boot to Unix so that I can format a drive on the
> WP51D box?  There is no floppy and I can't find a way to get to bios
to
> boot from CDRom.

To boot from CD-ROM, press Stop-A (on the Sun keyboard, I don't know the
proper escape sequence if you'r not using the Sun keyboard) and type
"boot cdrom" at the subsequent # prompt.

There are several threads about formatting hard drives in the archive,
the one that I'm familiar with is here:

http://www.freelists.org/archives/foxboro/01-2002/msg00103.html

Good luck!

Duc



 
 
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