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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
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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. ;-)