Hello,

I have a faulty DVD on a T2000 (Niagra) machine;
When I try to boot an installation solaris media DVD with this DVD
I get a kernel panic with the following messages on console: 
...
...
uata: atapi_reset_drive
uata: ata_timeout_func
uata: ghd_timer_newstate
uata: ghd_timer_poll
uata: ghd_timeout_softirq
...
...


During normal operation of the T2000 I see messages about "spurious 
interrupts from ino 0x4" which are probably cause by this faulty DVD
and generally the machine works slow and in some circumstances 
reboots.
I want to disable this DVD to make sure wheter these messages about  
"spurious interrupts" are from it.  So I disconnected the DVD cable.
Then try to reboot.
I got an error : cannot locate boot device.
printenv from the OBP (ok> prompt) does **NOT** show the DVD.

I also tried "setenv boot-device disk" 
in OBP (ok prompt) and again rebooted and got the same 
"cannot locate boot device.".

So: my question is: is there a way to disconnect a DVD from T2000 a
and reboot succesfully ? 

Another question is : is it safe to remove the uata driver 
from the boot process ? (By adding : "exclude uata" to /etc/system? )

Regards,
David
 
 
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