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Subject: Re: BSD Crash
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From: mark@troma.rv.tis.com (Mark Sienkiewicz)
Date: 24 Mar 1997 17:45:12 -0500
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In article <5h6k92$dqc@viking.ties.k12.mn.us>,
 <rdurkee@roco.bloomington.k12.mn.us> wrote:
>Then stopped.   I was able to boot using floppies but when
>I attempted to mount the hard drive I get:
>
>device not configured

It looks like either your disk or your disk controller disappeared.
Probably you had a hardware failure and will have to replace either
the disk, the controller, or both.