Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:46:08 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> To: "Schroeder, Aaron" <Aaron.Schroeder@qg.com> Cc: "'Steven'" <steven@trance.org>, "'Eduardo Damato'" <damato@unesp.br>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard Disk not found Message-ID: <20020613134608.GO80030@cicely5.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <4AB507918F78D611BA4200010333060279C3C7@waexch1.qgraph.com> References: <4AB507918F78D611BA4200010333060279C3C7@waexch1.qgraph.com>
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 07:45:19AM -0500, Schroeder, Aaron wrote: > Another trick is to use chmod and exer from the SRM if you wish to erase > disks in order for FreeBSD to see them. Here is a typical command: > > chmod +w dka* > exer -a w dka* & (It may error on the CD drive, depending on your config) > > That's it! Your disk(s) are now being "exercised" by the SRM. That actually > starts with the first sector and wipes out the disk sectors by sector. It is > an early version of DILX, for those of you familiar with Compaq storage. Cool - thanks for the information. > To check to see if exer is running, do a 'show_status' and see if exer has a > PID, if so, then you can type 'init' and then proceed to install. > > One thing to note, if you want to kill a single drive instead of every disk > that starts with dka like in the example, you will have to 'ls' and then > find the "file" that the disk is associated with (ex. dkb0.2.0000.0) Then > substitute dka* with the "filename" of your disk. You seem to know a bit on SRMs disk capabilities. Is it possible for you (or someone else on the list) to explain the following device path: pka0.7.0.1001.0 ? It's configured in an AS600 for which the SRM console password is not available. Every atempt to clear that password has been failed. I already thought about unsoldering the NVRAM. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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