NextCube N1000 noot booting / aborts with error message and prompts

[tronlives]

Hello folks,
i have not much experience with Next Computers.

Unfortunately my NextCube N1000 has now a problem. During the booting process (NextStep loading process displayed as GUI) the booting aborts and i receive this error screen. See attached jpg.

I hope my hard drive has no physical damage. As there any diagnostics mode or checkdisk tool i can use ?

I have no full working Mo drive.

[gtnicol]

That looks like the hard disk has failed.

[barcher174]

That looks like the hard disk has failed.

Agreed.

[nuss]

Hi @gtnicol and @barcher174 ,

can this errors result from SCSI (termination) or RAM issues? I remember similar messages, when having slightly bad RAM in my slab.

Do you think running `fsck` can still help with those messages?
Or should the HDD not been touched, as it may be recovered (if still valuable data is on it)?

[gtnicol]

The 'block' error is pretty indicative of a crashed head: you get a different error for termination issues. You *may* have something like a bad capacitor on the drive that is causing it to fail, but most likely, it's a head crash.