From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 15 10:00:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62ED316A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:00:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net (smtp1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C2643D4C for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:00:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Shane@007Marketing.com) Received: from [192.168.8.50] (ppp19-170.static.internode.on.net [150.101.19.170])iBFA0A0r058096 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:30:11 +1030 (CST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.4.030702.0 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:30:03 +1030 From: Shane Ambler To: FreeBSD Mailing Lists Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20041214231432.7371.qmail@web41509.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Hi everyone :) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:00:15 -0000 Something you haven't made clear - is the scsi card the same one from the alpha machine? Raid disks from one controller rarely read from another controller. On 15/12/2004 9:44, "J D" wrote: > Hey, new here. I figured I would subscribe to this list as opposed to > the others because I have something of an odd problem which is directly > related to matters hardware. > > Until about a month ago I was running FreeBSD on a DEC AlphaServer > 1000, which is an old, relatively inexpensive server system based, of > course, on Digital's Alpha architecture. > > Recently, that machine simply stopped working. You hit the power > switch, hear a brief click and spinning up of fans, and the power light > goes off about a second and a half afterward, sans any beeping, > blinking lights or presentation of error information on the machine's > built-in LCD. > > In my experience, problems like these are usually caused by power > supplies, which in this machine's case is dazzlingly proprietary with > all kinds of connectors and such coming out of it that I don't > recognize. Realizing that tracking down spare parts for this machine > was going to be extremely difficult, I decided to try the following: > > 1) Pull the drives out of the machine and remove them from their > cartridge casings > 2) Hook them together to an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card > 3) Put that into my old PII/400 system > 4) Install BSD and hope that somehow I'd be able to mount the disks as > different partitions, get the data out, dump it somewhere safe, and > then start over fresh with my new IDE/SCSI Frankenstein machine. > > Naturally, it's step 4 I'm having trouble with. > > The machine now recognizes the presence of the three 2GB drives, but > sysinstall's fdisk calls the partitions on them "unused." When I do > "fdisk da0" from a root prompt, however, I get these bits of relevant > data: > > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > The data for partition 1 is: > sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 63, size 4096512 (2000 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ head1/ sector 1; > end: cyl 254/ head 254/ sector 63 > The data for partition 2 is: > > > And so on for 3 and 4. > > I get the same results for da1 and da2 (including flag 80 (active), > which is somewhat puzzling to me). > > So. Be straight with me. Is the data on these drives completely > unrecoverable? Can I do some gymnastics to get it back? I was afraid > in the beginning of this little project that I might have an endianness > issue. Is there some help for this, if true? Wikipedia says this > about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness which makes me think > that possibly my Alpha and PII are different-endian. Can I do anything > about the data that's still on these drives if that's the case? > > TIA for any help you can offer. Anyone who wants it, btw, can have any > of the hardware from my Alpha machine if they'd like it :) > > JD > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. > http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Shane Ambler Sales Department 007Marketing.com Shane@007Marketing.com