7300 HD ERR at boot. (panic: iinit) HELP.

[David Ragozin]

One of our many unix pc's seems to be biting the dust: 
On power up, only little sqares appear accross screen - as it searches
in vain for HD?

A boot from floppy boot disk fails when it asks for insertion of 
disk 3 of 12 -(floppy file system under 3.5 not 3.51) - with HDERR
(I don't have message here - looks like early tracks).

Is there a way to boot from floppy without trying to read HD?
All we want to do at the moment is to read off some files from
the hard disk. 

More detailed repair might follow.

(I couldn't remember instructions for opening case to check out the
connections etc., so a summary of those would also help.)

Thanks.
David Ragozin, Department of Mathematics, GN-50,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 98195. (206-543-1148)
rag at entropy.ms.washington.edu  or
...!uw-beaver!uw-entropy!rag
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David Ragozin, Department of Mathematics, GN-50,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 98195. (206-543-1148)
rag at entropy.ms.washington.edu  or
...!uw-beaver!uw-entropy!rag