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From: stefanos@concour.cs.concordia.ca (KIAKAS stefanos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: can you initialize the HD from the workspace manager disk option (help)
Message-ID: <556@daily-planet.concordia.ca>
Date: 22 Jun 91 22:24:28 GMT
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hello everyone

  i seem to have erased my hard disk. i was logged in as root and had
  a floppy disk in the disk drive from using the command 

       tar -xvf /dev/rfd0b  <some files which i had ftp'd >

  i copied the files from the floppy onto my next and i wanted to format 
  the floppy so that i could use it as a next formated diskette. ( i had
  formatted the diskette on a sun sparc. )

  i selected the disk option from the workspace manager menu and selected
  initialize. the message that appears when you want to initialize a disk 
  appearded on the screen. i clicked on the mouse button figuring
  that i would format the floppy disk and that is when the panic message 
  appeared to the screen. i tried to reboot but got a message saying SCSI 
  error.
  
  i then got into the ROM monitor and set it up for extended diagnostics
  and i got the following message

  Starting  Extended Self Test...
  Extended SCSI Test
  System Test Passed

  boot sd(0,0,0) diagnostics
  booting SCSI target 1,  lun 0
  waiting for drive to come ready ...
  blk0 boot: sd() diagnostic
  Booting from SCSI target 1, lun 0
  diagnostics: not found
  load failed

  blk0 boot:

  so can you initialize the hard disk by using the disk oprtion in the
  workspace manager menu as i have done? (is it this easy to do so?)

  what can i do now to get the system up again?

  i have a nextstation  8M RAM 200M HD, it is not connected to a network.

  any help would be appreciated.

                                 stef