Regarding disk problem...

[srinivasa Rao_3]

Hi all,

We have one HP-UX machine (model:715/100).
Problem: System is not booting because of not detecting the hard disk.I ran the 'ioscan' command so many times and I checked the physical connection.I seems to be ok.

Is there otherway to check the status of the hard disk.?

Thanks
srinu.

[Warren_9]

hi,

did you check the output of "setboot"? maybe you've got wrong path configured.

GOOD LUCK!

[Sridhara]

Check the SCSI id. it may be clashing, because of which it may not be deteced.

[Andrew Rutter]

hi,

ioscan is a hpux command? so if its not booted up into hpux where are you running the command.

stop the 715 from booting at the BCH prompt by pressing escape when you get the first grey box appearing and do a serach here,

just type sea

this will search for possible boot devices.

how many devices are in the system, and check scsi id for conflicts if anything else has been added since last good boot.

it could be just the disk is failed.

do you have a cdrom drive in or attached that you can try and boot from.

Andy

[Ajitkumar Rane]

Strange to hear u executed the ioscan command but the system is not booting.
Is that the boot disk or some other disk?

check if the disk is getting initialized when u power on the system, you can hear some tuk tuk sound when the disk is getting initialized. and u can also feel if the platters are rotating. If not then the disk is gone bad, if not then there are 505/50 % chances the electronics isnt working OK.
Chck changing the cable maybe shuffle the SCSI connector
so the disk can be gone bad.

Good Luck,

Rgds

ajit

[srinivasa Rao_3]

Hi all,

I ran the 'sea' command(By mistake I mentioned 'ioscan' command in the pervious mail).Sorry.

Problem is disk is gone bad.Support engineer is working on this issue.

thanks for your information.

Regards,srinu.