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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.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: Probs with Adaptec 2940 ??? Date: 17 Apr 1996 21:33:12 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4l3o2o$6dq@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <GORSKI.96Apr12224241@axiom.somewhere.de> <4knsqe$hkp@uriah.heep.sax.de> <3172940a.346997392@feline.nrnsinc.on.ca> 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 0.9.6 robinson@nrnsinc.on.ca (Ken Robinson) writes: >Any ideas? This is on a newly installed news server and the problem >is starting to get annoying. ;-). If it's announced as MEDIUM ERROR, and it's a new disk, did you try contacting the vendor? Judging from your report, this is with 99.9 % probability a hardware failure. (There might be possible software workarounds, but if the disk is new, i would return 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. ;-)