[j-nsp] M7i :hard-disk missing in Boot List

[Michael Loftis]

--On May 17, 2006 9:37:47 AM +0300 Dmitry Cherkasov <doctorchd at gmail.com> 
wrote:


> Seems to be a bug in 7.3R1.
> We had a similar problem on M7i with the same JunOS version.
> Expert people say that newer versions are free from this bug.
>
> That time the procedure that finally helped was the following: halt
> the system without powering off, wait 10-15 minutes then boot.

Sounds like your problem was the el-cheapo laptop hard drive they use in 
these REs.  It needs time to do it's offline maintenance, the constant log 
chatter from the various things going on in a Unix box don't really allow 
them to do it's internal maintenance, and after a while, the HDD will fail 
to calibrate and become a brick until you leave it alone for anywhere from 
a minute to half an hour, usually 10-20 minutes.

This is a pretty well known issue, and has been discussed in various fora, 
but Juniper doesn't seem to have done anything about it.
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