Very good Point Tim! I would be assuming he'll be doing a restore from tape once he gets the Hard Drive ready to accept IA Installs. But you know what assume can do to you and me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lowell, Timothy Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 10:10 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [foxboro] WP51D with hard drive problems Hang on a sec, you don't need a floppy drive for I/A since version 6.1? Since when? Every time I have installed a system, from 3.x to 8.2, it has required a floppy drive to read the 11091 and the 11001 diskettes and the commit diskette. How are you getting around that? Tim Lowell Control Systems Engineer Tesoro Petroleum Company 210-283-2929 (w) 210-253-0225 (c) tlowell@xxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gillis, Dale Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 8:03 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [foxboro] WP51D with hard drive problems Hi Tim I had to do this before on both a D and a B Box. Here is a link of what I did for the B Box. //www.freelists.org/archives/foxboro/04-2004/msg00004.html However there are some differences in the D Box but very similar. You'll figure it out. You will have to check the old Hard Drive for label info and partition info and make your new 10 GB Drive the same using the format tools booted up from your cdrom Day 0. Be sure to label the disk at the end of your partitioning exercise. This should work for you because now the system will think you have a 8.4 GB instead of a 10 GB HD and install should go flawlessly. You don't need the floppy disk if you are installing a version later than 6.1 Dale Gillis Instrument Technician Stora Enso Port Hawkesbury Ltd. PO Box 9500 B9A 1A1 Phone:902-625-2460 Ext 4401 or 6233 Fax : 902-625-2098 Pager:317 (Dial 8 to get into Paging System) =3D3D20 -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rarden, Tim Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 9:52 AM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [foxboro] WP51D with hard drive problems New to this forum and new to IA systems. Have done some searching but have not found an answer to my problem. =3D3D20 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: =3D3D20 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? 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. 3. Do I have to get a replacement from Foxboro (Seagate 8.4GB drive) with some magic performed on it by Foxboro or, can I purchase a refurb'd drive and install it? =3D3D20 Thanks for your help in advance! =3D3D20 Best Regards, =3D3D20 Tim Rarden Process Control Engineer SMART PAPERS HOLDINGS LLC "You're Brilliant. We're SMART. Imagine the Possibilities" 601 N. 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