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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!usenet.hana.nm.kr!jagalchi.cc.pusan.ac.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.jsums.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.De!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI hardware failures Date: 20 Feb 1996 00:27:05 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4gb4gp$d34@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4fr98g$7t7@kirin.wwa.com> <DMu24G.wu@boss.cs.ohiou.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 psimpson@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Pete Simpson) writes: > I've just begun getting similar errors.... I'm worried about the same > thing, Is my disk dying!? How do I decipher these messages? > > Feb 14 02:02:23 sym2 /kernel: sd0(ahc0:6:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:3c8040 > csi:e,7,0,33 asc:11,0 Unrecovered read error field replaceable unit: 15 Not unlikely. :-( Other potential sources of evil: * overheating drive * faulty power connectors * conflicting sources for TERM POWER on the bus (unlike some other publications suggest, i generally make all peripherals _not_ supply term power to the bus, and have only the controller supply it) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)