Re: 43P-150 hangs during startup, code 517

From: Jan Rypdal (no.spam@home.com)
Date: 04/03/03 

From: "Jan Rypdal" <no.spam@home.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 20:43:24 +0200

I now tried to low-level format both the Seagate 8GB and the IBM 36GB disks,
and start with empty disks. No difference with the IBM 36GB, but now also
the Seagate makes the system loop forever during boot, restarting after
E1F1.

I assume that this may be that none of them are recognized as a boot disk?

If I reformat the 9GB system disk, what may I expect to happen? Will this
ruin my system forever, or are all the boot routines in microcode?
Or could this prompt a re-install?

Regards,
Jan

"Jan Rypdal" <no.spam@home.com> wrote in message
news:WOXia.958$b71.23350@news4.e.nsc.no...
> I've now tried to remove the battery for 5 minutes and restart.
> No prompt for display / keyboard, I never get that far...
>
> If I try an empty 8GB Seagate disk only, it stops at E24C. If I try the
> 36GB Ultrastar data disk only, it goes to E1F1 and restarts. If I do the
> original 9GB system disk only, it stops in the same 517 spot, just after
> having configured the SCSI (code 840).
>
> I have no other AIX systems to prepare the disks or create a new boot
> disk, if there is something wrong with the boot info on the disk. If I
> low-level format the disks on an Adaptec SCSI on a PC, and try again,
> what is then supposed to happen?
>
> Regards,
> Jan
>
>
> "Jochen Luebbers" <luebbers@tde-online.de> wrote in message
> news:b6hfr2$58b2k$1@ID-100086.news.dfncis.de...
>> Jan Rypdal schrieb:
>>> Btw, do you know if the AIX boxes only accepts the IBM Ultrastar disks,
>>> or could I try with other disks SCSI like Seagate?
>
>> You should be able to boot from a seagate disk as well.
>>
>> Jochen.

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