[iyonix-support] Re: No lists this month?
- From: John Ballance <jwb@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:26:08 +0100
Quick and simple answer .. Part of the startup process is to talk to the
drives using simple programmed i/o to see what is there.. My best suggestion of
what you saw was that the diagnostics reply wasn't as expected, or didn't
complete, thus hanging the io bus.
Cheers.
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On 17 Jun 2011, at 11:16, Tim Hill <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Well, for one I couldn't report the problems I was having as a hard drive
> failure prevented the POST from completing and resulted in a non-working
> Iyo. All is fixed now, thanks to the prompt action of CJE. Thankfully it
> turned out not to be the Boot drive which was dead, as I thought.
>
> This does beg a question: why does a machine which can run with just the
> modules in ROM need to have (a) hard drive(s) which work(s)? Wouldn't it
> be better if the machine started with an appropriate error message if it
> finds the configured drive(s) inaccessible? The equivalent of an
> automatic shift+boot if you like.
>
> In my case I had two drives (4 & 5) and 5's bearing failed (I think).
> There was nothing wrong with 4 so why didn't the machine start with that
> and just tell me 5 was broken? I know it sort of does that if both drives
> spin up properly because drive 5 had actually failed (with a head crash?)
> some time ago and didn't appear on the iconbar and I just never got round
> to removing it. Forgot about it, actually. I had no choice but to replace
> it now! As it was seven years old I am not surprised.
>
> (Delighted to find, by the way, that there was nothing like the dirt
> inside this Iyo than there was in PC towers I took apart to replace GFX
> cards. I never knew: more fans = more dirt inside. They're obviously
> designed to suck dirt in and blow only air out! Apart from heating the
> room there is another use for a PC's PSU exhaust: I attach a cardboard
> tube with a muslin cover and dry herbs in it. Makes the office smell nice
> too. :-) And yes - before I get told off - I do monitor the thing's
> temperatures when I do that and it seems to make no difference.)
>
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