> But today the system went Gack(1) - it had a SCSI
> error on the console and everything was locked, so I
> had to hard-boot, and when it came back up . . . .

I've had many a machine go KAZACK!

Have you phsyically removed each component of the machine in question and
replaced tenderly?

> I get timeouts from the Adaptec's SCSI adapters BIOS
> routine where it polls it's devices.
>
> Then it appears to boot until I get:

Sounds like something has either cooked, or come loose, make sure the
connections are good.

> No, I don't have backups(2), but there's only one
> partition that has any data I need, and I don't think
> it's on the bad disk.  The / and /boot partitions are
> on one disk, and /home is on another.  /home I need.
>

Look at CD-RW's :-)


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