[olug] calling solaris guru...

[Tim & Alethea Larson]

Hello.  I am hoping that someone more knowledgable about Solaris and Sun 
hardware is lurking about this list.

Yesterday I put a different HD in my Ultra 5 and tried to do a fresh 
install of Solaris 9 from CD.  The installer partitioned the drive and 
copied the files over, but upon reboot it could not find the HD.  When I 
probe-ide at the OB prompt, the HD is not found.  But if I boot from CD, 
it finds the HD partition and asks if it's OK to install there.  When 
booted single-user from the CD, I can fsck the partition in question, 
and it reports some errors that it claims to fix (a 2nd fsck is clean). 
  But when I try to boot from HD again to continue installation, it 
still says the device is not found.

I've been around this loop a couple times now.  Is there something else 
I can try to do to repair the HD, or at least wall off the bad 
blocks/sectors somehow?

Thanks in advance,
Tim
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Tim & Alethea
christtrek.org