i was running my sunblade 100, solaris 10, 2mb ram, western digital 80gig
main drive, scsi seagate drive in addition. suddenly it would not respond
to the the mouse and keyboard. i had to turn it off manually in order to try
to see what was happening.

on a manual restart, it refused to ' boot disk' or to 'boot cdrom', saying
the device could not be found; it kept trying for a netboot. 'probe-ide'
yields a failure of all ide devices.

i tried a fresh start with stop-N held down, and the only difference was
a report that the hard drive has a bad magic number.

what has gone, given these symptoms?

i intend to try another hard drive to see if the drive (a recent
acquisition, and new) has crashed. would that also make the cdrom
invisible?
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