[nos-bbs] Hard drive issues?

[KI6SEP]

I'm in the San Jose area & have a couple of SCSI computers running.  If you are coming up here let me know!

Andy

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On Jun 16, 2012, at 11:46, Chris Maness <chris at chrismaness.com> wrote:

> It will boot off of the CD just fine, but if I try to mount the SCSI
> drive, it reboots instantly.  It did this with three different live
> CD's.  I was even trying my FreeBSD install CD, but it won't read
> ext4.
> 
> I also suspect the mobo.  I don't have another junker around that
> would even take the SCSI card.  All my other PC's are too new.
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 10:52 AM, aa9vt1 <aa9vt1 at mchsi.com> wrote:
>> I had a similar failure and the problem was the motherboard. If it won't
>> boot of a CD/DVD like KNOPPIX, I would suspect the motherboard.
>> 
>> You might be able to read the hard drive off another computer.
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> 
>> On 06/16/2012 10:05 AM, Chris Maness wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yesterday, I had a power failure, and when power was restored, my JNOS
>>> box failed to boot.  This wouldn't be that big of a deal, but my last
>>> back up is on the old side.  The computer is spontaneously rebooting
>>> when the kernel goes to mount the drive.  I have never had this happen
>>> before.  It is an older SCSI drive.  I imagine the disk is still
>>> working because it is reading the boot sector.  If I use a live CD to
>>> try to mount it also spontaneously reboots.  I am not sure if my BIOS
>>> settings have changed since the power failure.  I checked the clock in
>>> the BIOS and the time was still the current time, so I would imagine
>>> the mother board battery still had some juice.
>>> 
>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>> Chris KQ6UP
>>> 
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