Here's an email I got from Matt reporting on the progress on access:
I finally got a chance to start on access after I replaced its power supply.
The disk that's in the system seems to have problems, in that it spins up,
but it never reports ready to the controller. If you listen to the disk,
you can hear the heads click every couple of seconds, like they are trying
to seek, but it keeps going through this cycle.
Did you want me to give you back the drive, and you can take it back and
get it traded or something? I don't know if this is a new drive, or one
you had laying around. The drive reports to the controller that it's an
HP drive of some model number, but always reports 'Not Ready' to any other
SCSI commands.
I have a spare Seagate 43400N, which is a full-height, 5-1/4" 2.7GB drive
that I have in a shoebox onto which I'm installing BSDI right now. I
can loan you this drive for an indefinite period of time. Whenever you
can get the drive replaced, I can transfer the system onto this drive,
and I can take my drive back.
I wanted to get your system ready for you by the end of the holidays,
and haven't had hardly any time to be able to do it so far due to family
being around and such. I'm leaving employment at Motorola as of January
10th, and will be starting employment at Tivoli Systems starting tomorrow,
so for the next two or three weeks, I'm going to be extremely busy
shuffling between two jobs, so its not likely I'll have a lot of time
for much else.
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Matt Ragan (
matt@ibmoto.com) Motorola/IBM Somerset PowerPC Design Center
Network Administrator Systems/Network Engineering (512) 424-8298
6300 Bridgepoint Pkwy, Bldg 4 Austin, Tx 78731 FAX (512) 424-8826
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