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From: phil@zipmail.co.uk (Phil Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem With Fujitsu SCSI Drive (Messages and Test Results)
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 13:05:50 GMT
Organization: Lan Systems
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jj@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:

>Phil Taylor <phil@zipmail.co.uk> wrote:

>>The messages I get are as follows :
>>
>>sd0(aha0:0:0): HARDWARE FAILURE asc: 44,a2, FAILURE
>>sd0(aha0:0:0): HARDWARE FAILURE asc: 44,a2, Retries = x
>>sd0(aha0:0:0): HARDWARE FAILURE info: 2d18 asc 15,1 Mechanical
>>positioning error sks(80,f) 
>>sd0(aha0:0:0): HARDWARE FAILURE info: 1d70 asc 15,1 Mechanical
>>positioning error sks(80,f)
>>vm_page : pager input (probably hardware) error, PID 11 failure
>>
>>Quite worrying messages but what exactly do they mean ?????

>It's a strong recommendation to throw this disk into the
>bit-bucket. :-(

>Well, ain't ``Mechanical positioning error'' plainly english enough to
>read it?

How come I can use this drive under every other OS and on other
platforms, mac and olivetti mips running win nt with no problem, I
have also tried under fbsd without running fsck and copied big files
across filesystems without error, it ONLY fails when funning fsck
under FBSD, not any other OS !!!!

Cheers 

Phil