On 3/19/2012 6:54 AM, William Hooper wrote:
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Paul Allen Newell<pnewell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I now have a machine that is "a brick". There is no operating system on it
as that got destroyed and any attempts to do a fresh install come back with
"No usable disks have been found" and I can't make any progress. Nothing
could be done in the troubleshoot options except get a dmesg, which I have
attached to this email.
I don't believe anyone has suggested it, but are your sure your hard
drive is still functioning? The file you attached doesn't detect any
hard disks, just two optical drives:
[ 2.245311] ata2.00: ATAPI: ATAPI DVD A DH20A4H, QP53, max UDMA/66
[ 2.245321] ata2.01: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8480B, 1.03, max MWDMA2
[ 2.245327] ata2.00: limited to UDMA/33 due to 40-wire cable
[ 2.267187] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 2.289186] ata2.01: configured for MWDMA2
[ 2.292540] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM ATAPI DVD A DH20A4H
QP53 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 2.295848] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 47x/125x writer dvd-ram cd/rw
xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 2.295853] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 2.296064] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[ 2.296192] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
[ 2.297320] scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST CD-ROM
GCR-8480B 1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 2.300388] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 2.300567] sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[ 2.300695] sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
William:
Thanks for reply. Nobody has suggested it and I think the only mention
might have been my comment about "amazing timing" if it was a hardware
failure at the exact time of the install / partition. I appreciate your
pointing this out!
Your email reminded me that I think I have a CD from HP for diagnostics
on the xw8000 (its been a long time since I needed it -- over a decade),
so I will see if I can find it and see if it shows any more light on
what is happening.
I spent yesterday reading up about partitioning et al and hopefully will
get the courage to try playing with the "brick" today.
Paul
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