Any hope for this Quantum Hard drive from an old Indy?
I grabbed an Indy XZ out of my storage in California over the holiday. Still looks pretty new! Removed the hard drive in case I had to check the well packed Indy box, wrapped it in foam and put it safely in my laptop bag, but managed to get the largeish box into an overhead bin (I checked the exact size limits!!), so thankfully the long preserved Indy was never thrown around and dropped. I was more worried about the Nidec power supply, but that seems fine. Other the drive the thing just worked, no reseating anything. Graphics comes up and I can get into the PROM monitor no problem. BUT it doesn't boot and the drive doesn't give the noises I expect from an old SCSI drive. This machine has been untouched since 2008. 14 years! In non climate controlled northern California heat,
The drive is newer than the Indy for sure. It has a 68 pin interface and a 68 to 50 pin converter. SCSI being SCSI perhaps me messing with the cable and the very tight fitting converter could be problematic? But I fear the drive just isn't initializing, heads are not tracking, something like that. It spins up ok, but never makes any head searching, reading noises. Just repeatedly cycles through some initial actions, same sound over and over, in sync with the same or similar errors in the PROM Monitor.
Quantum Viking II, 9.1GB, P/N PX09L011
Anyone got any rituals for reviving 25 year old SCSI drives??
Here's googles attempt at making text from a screenshot. Looks mostly right? We live in the future.
/hw/node/10/gio/hpc/scs1_ct ir/8/target/1/1un/8/disk/partition/8/block: retries ALERT: 1/0 error in filesystem ("/") meta-data dev 0x25 block 8x782e19 ("xlog_br ead")
WARNING: initial mount of root device /hw/node/10/g10/hpc/scs1_ct 1r/8/target/1/1 un/8/disk/partition/0/block failed with errno 5 WARNING: initial mount of root device /hw/node/10/gio/hpc/scs1_ct1r/8/target/1/1 un/8/disk/partition/0/block failed with errno 10117
(This post was last modified: 01-14-2022, 07:10 AM by Dylanear.)
