From "Bruce Sterling Woodcock" on Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:04:58 PST:
fine. What does the manul say? Moreover, why didn't you follow what the manual says, Will?
Ahhh RTFM. Gotta love it. =)
When I rebooted, it failed to load the OS; error "Invalid opcode" (i.e. it read junk off the disk).
I'm not familiar with this particular boot-time gotcha, but it sounds consistent with getting the disks mixed up and possibly not issuing both of the required "disk swap" commands.
I agree, although I suspect it was just trying to read off the new disk. If he pulled the disk he just put in, I bet there is a good chance the filer would have booted fine.
This seems consistent with the boot blocks not getting downloaded to the new disk. Although it seems odd that all subsequent boots just happen to be from that new disk, but its hard to shake the feeling that it was a missing or incorrect set of boot blocks.
Ah well, now that the volume has been scratched, we may never know. =)
-- Jeff