Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 13:20:34 -0800 (PST) From: J D <starkruzr1701@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More Alpha woes Message-ID: <20041218212034.53583.qmail@web41503.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <86k6rfmj95.wl%john@utzweb.net>
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I can hear the fans spinning up every time I trip the switch. Which fan should I be looking at specifically? --- "John L.Utz III" <john@utzweb.net> wrote: > i hear 'bad power supply', with the most likely culprit being the fan > siezed > up. > > can you spin the fan with your finger > > At Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:48:13 -0800 (PST), > J D wrote: > > > > Tried disklabel da0. This resulted in "disklabel: /dev/da0: no > valid > > label found." Still can't mount the disk or any partitions in it. > > > > Also tried tricking the top interlock switch on the Alpha system > > itself. Strange, because with the power on, tripping the interlock > > causes the machine to come on for about a second and then shut off > like > > it did before. It repeats this every time I trip the interlock. > Any > > ideas what else could be causing this trouble? > > > > JD > > > > --- Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2004-Dec-14 15:14:32 -0800, 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. > > > > > > Alpha hardware is sufficiently uncommon that it's also discussed > on > > > -alpha. > > > > > > >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. > > > > > > That sounds like a PSU problem. I agree that trying to buy a new > one > > > would be impractical (and uneconomic). If you know someone with > some > > > hardware skills, it may be repairable - the inside probably won't > be > > > that peculiar. > > > > > > >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: > > > > > > The problem is that Alpha disks don't have a PC-style partition > > > table. > > > > > > >So. Be straight with me. Is the data on these drives > completely > > > >unrecoverable? Can I do some gymnastics to get it back? > > > > > > The data is still there and should be recoverable. Rather than > > > using sysinstall, try installing the disks onto a functional > FreeBSD > > > system and try "disklabel daN". You should be able to mount > those > > > partitions. > > > > > > >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. > > > > > > The Alpha is theoretically bytesexual but, AFAIK, only > little-endian > > > Alpha systems exist. Your A1000 is definitely little-endian - > which > > > matches your P-II. The only issue you might bump into is that > longs > > > are 32-bits on i386 and 64-bits on Alpha, though all the on-disk > > > structures are fixed sizes so this won't affect mounting the > disk. > > > > > > >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 :) > > > > > > You might like to offer this in -alpha and give an indication of > > > where > > > you are (since an A1000 is not compact). > > > > > > -- > > > Peter Jeremy > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. > > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > _______________________________________________ > > 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" > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Dress up your holiday email, Hollywood style. Learn more. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com
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