[rescue] offline

[George Adkins]

On Saturday 09 February 2002 10:22 pm, you wrote:
> If anyone with more sparc experience than myself is up this evening,
> whould you care to hazard a guess about this:
>
> A disk is identified by probe-scsi, but installation reports "WARNING: ...
> (sd0) offline" and can't proceed.  This is a 4.2Gb Quantum in an Ultra2.
> The same occurs in either slot, while another disk has no trouble.
>
> I'm guessing this drive has given up the ghost, but hoping there might be
> a cure. My luck with used systems has been pretty good, but may have just
> run out. I got this critter Thursday, and am disappointed that it may not
> be fully working..
>

is the drive spinning up at power-on?
If not, check the auto-spinup or 'motor start' jumper on the drive.

What OS are you trying to install?

George