On Monday, April 29, 2002, at 04:00 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>> I hope the hard disk isn't shot. I only just got it. Is there any way
>> I can verify it other than running fsck over the Unix portions?
>
> Even though you got your HD running again, just by way of future
> reference,
> no :-) Unless the tool is specifically A/UX aware, it won't return
> anything
> useful about the disk partition and it might even trash it.
I thought so.
> I'm still mulling over your CD-ROM issue. In my case, I have an external
> 300CD, so it's never been a problem for me. Strange that the boot and
> installation kernel should work with the CD-ROM, but not the production
> kernel. The CD-ROM was connected and running while the kernel rebuilt
> itself
> after install, correct?
Yup. If there is a CD in it displays a mess of errors relating to
time-outs in the SCSI bus with the latest re-install I did. The only
device drivers it compiled into the kernel were for the Ethernet card
and the loop-back and maybe the extra video card, which works AFAIK
although I haven't tried it.
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