More Alpha woes
J D
starkruzr1701 at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 18 13:20:34 PST 2004
I can hear the fans spinning up every time I trip the switch. Which
fan should I be looking at specifically?
--- "John L.Utz III" <john at utzweb.net> wrote:
> i hear 'bad power supply', with the most likely culprit being the fan
> siezed
> up.
>
> can you spin the fan with your finger
>
> At Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:48:13 -0800 (PST),
> J D wrote:
> >
> > Tried disklabel da0. This resulted in "disklabel: /dev/da0: no
> valid
> > label found." Still can't mount the disk or any partitions in it.
> >
> > Also tried tricking the top interlock switch on the Alpha system
> > itself. Strange, because with the power on, tripping the interlock
> > causes the machine to come on for about a second and then shut off
> like
> > it did before. It repeats this every time I trip the interlock.
> Any
> > ideas what else could be causing this trouble?
> >
> > JD
> >
> > --- Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2004-Dec-14 15:14:32 -0800, J D wrote:
> > > >Hey, new here. I figured I would subscribe to this list as
> opposed
> > > to
> > > >the others because I have something of an odd problem which is
> > > directly
> > > >related to matters hardware.
> > >
> > > Alpha hardware is sufficiently uncommon that it's also discussed
> on
> > > -alpha.
> > >
> > > >Recently, that machine simply stopped working. You hit the
> power
> > > >switch, hear a brief click and spinning up of fans, and the
> power
> > > light
> > > >goes off about a second and a half afterward, sans any beeping,
> > > >blinking lights or presentation of error information on the
> > > machine's
> > > >built-in LCD.
> > >
> > > That sounds like a PSU problem. I agree that trying to buy a new
> one
> > > would be impractical (and uneconomic). If you know someone with
> some
> > > hardware skills, it may be repairable - the inside probably won't
> be
> > > that peculiar.
> > >
> > > >The machine now recognizes the presence of the three 2GB drives,
> but
> > > >sysinstall's fdisk calls the partitions on them "unused." When
> I do
> > > >"fdisk da0" from a root prompt, however, I get these bits of
> > > relevant
> > > >data:
> > >
> > > The problem is that Alpha disks don't have a PC-style partition
> > > table.
> > >
> > > >So. Be straight with me. Is the data on these drives
> completely
> > > >unrecoverable? Can I do some gymnastics to get it back?
> > >
> > > The data is still there and should be recoverable. Rather than
> > > using sysinstall, try installing the disks onto a functional
> FreeBSD
> > > system and try "disklabel daN". You should be able to mount
> those
> > > partitions.
> > >
> > > >issue. Is there some help for this, if true? Wikipedia says
> this
> > > >about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness which makes me
> > > think
> > > >that possibly my Alpha and PII are different-endian.
> > >
> > > The Alpha is theoretically bytesexual but, AFAIK, only
> little-endian
> > > Alpha systems exist. Your A1000 is definitely little-endian -
> which
> > > matches your P-II. The only issue you might bump into is that
> longs
> > > are 32-bits on i386 and 64-bits on Alpha, though all the on-disk
> > > structures are fixed sizes so this won't affect mounting the
> disk.
> > >
> > > >TIA for any help you can offer. Anyone who wants it, btw, can
> have
> > > any
> > > >of the hardware from my Alpha machine if they'd like it :)
> > >
> > > You might like to offer this in -alpha and give an indication of
> > > where
> > > you are (since an A1000 is not compact).
> > >
> > > --
> > > Peter Jeremy
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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