[nos-bbs] Hard drive issues?

[KI6SEP]

OK. The computer I've got isn't going anywhere!

Maybe you can find an old Mac. 

Good luck!

Andy

Sent from hand held. 

On Jun 16, 2012, at 12:42, Chris Maness <chris at chrismaness.com> wrote:

> 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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