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Boot to CDROM (boot cdrom -s)
once in the shell run command:
# format
or
# :| format
//If you see any error, then disk could be bad.
# iostat -En
//look for soft errors and hard errors.
Shutdown the system to OK prompt (commands are halt or shutdown -i0 -g0 -y)
at the OK prompt run these commands without the "OK" :
OK setenv auto-boot? false
OK reset-all
OK probe-scsi-all
//look for errors and also your disk.
OK setenv auto-boot? true
// by now you should have a fair idea as to if the disk is bad or not.
// if the disk is bad, best bet is to get a new disk and reload everything from backup or install new disk and OS, then mount the bad disk and copy any important files you need and trash it.
-GGR