[nos-bbs] Hard drive issues?

[Chris Maness]

I appreciate the offer.  Maybe I could mail you the drive, I am down
in SoCal.  I only need the contents of my /jnos directory.

Let me see if I can scrounge up an older PC for free or next free first.

Thanks,
Chris Maness

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:27 PM, KI6SEP <ki6sep at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm in the San Jose area & have a couple of SCSI computers running.  If you are coming up here let me know!
>
> Andy
>
> Sent from hand held.
>
> 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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