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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: rdump, disappearing SCSI drives
Message-ID: <11274@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 11 Aug 89 15:08:42 GMT
References: <15144@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>
Reply-To: aozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer)
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In article <15144@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> Dale R. Wyttenbach writes:
>				... I've rebuilt the SCSI
>drives because I find the cubes begging for someone to 'Insert the Disk'.
>When I boot the system with the optical drive, I am unable to mount the
>SCSI drive.  The error message I get is '/dev/sd0a: not found'.  (/dev/sd0a
>exists in the file system, but the cube doesn't recognize that the hardware
>exists, I think)

Is you machine normally set to boot from OD or SCSI? When you do get the
"Insert the Disk," get to the "NeXT>" prompt (with a CMD-tilde) and 
try to boot from the SCSI with "bsd". If that fails, then your SCSI 
might be trashed or maybe it's the cables aren't connected very well.
If "bsd" does the trick then you should set the default boot device to be
SCSI so you don't get the "Insert the Disk" prompt anymore.

Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support
aozer@NeXT.com