Re: [cobalt-users] [Qube2700] Is it broken?

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 11 March 2003 15:09, Leslie Herps wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I got a CacheQube2700 from eBay, it was shipped in OK condition.
> I got it, and RAM was lose, and the CMOS battery thing came of, so I
> soldered it back on... (all due to the delivery - overseas)...
>
> So, I boot the thing, it hangs at "Starting up"... Just sits there...
> When I netboot, it formats the drives in 2 seconds... That's not normal...
> Then it reboots again, hangs at "starting up" ... Already replaced the
> harddrive... No luck...
>
I have a RaQ2 doing the same thing: console says:
+ inform Partitioning disk
+ echo Partitioning disk
Partitioning disk
+ [ yes = yes ]
+ /sbin/writelcd Partitioning disk
+ true
+ sfdisk -uM /dev/hda
/dev/hda: Operation not supported by device

I tried using the ROM from a working unit,
got the same result...

Now I am thinking that it may be the disk controller, which has a serial 
EEPROM for configuration. So maybe the serial EEPROM is waxed.

Damn thing is soldered in, but I guess I will remove the one from the working 
board and try it...

Gerald
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