SUMMARY: disk not responding to selection

From: Nicky Ayoub (Nicky.Ayoub@Microchip.COM)
Date: Tue Sep 17 1996 - 12:52:53 CDT


Hello Fellow Admins,
The consensus was a cable problem. The user had kicked out the cable and
reconnected it while I happend to be looking at it... It was bad timing
on my part I guess.

Original Message:
> What exactly can cause "disk not responding to selection" messages? I
> t's in the /var/adm/messages file. It looks like the disk is going bad.
> The messages file is showing a block error too. The strange thing
> is that I did 2 or 3 "dkinfo sd2" that said "no such disk"???
> It finally came back. I have not seen this behaviour before...
> Has anymone else? Looks like I need to reformat that disk.
>

Thanks to:
"Louis C. Liao" <liaol@edsug.com>
Wis Macomson <wis@sequent.com>
Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
rloftin@engsys.mc.xerox.com (Ron Loftin)
"Trevor Paquette" <TrevorPaquette@aec.ca>
Rachel Polanskis <rachel@juno.virago.org.au>
Dave Mitchell <D.Mitchell@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Fedor Gnuchev <qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ru>
Per Boussard <per@era-t.ericsson.se>
Erin Copeland <erin@sam.math.ethz.ch>
andrea@ll.mit.edu (Andrea Carleton)
martin@mednuc.hsr.it (Martin Achilli)
bismark@alta.jpl.nasa.gov (Bismark Espinoza)

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Nicky
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