From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 14:09:39 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA14016 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 14:09:39 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA14009 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 14:09:35 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.3) id RAA13083; Tue, 13 Jun 1995 17:08:30 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199506132108.RAA13083@hda.com> Subject: Re: Medium error To: wjw@IAEhv.nl (Willem Jan Withagen) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 17:08:29 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506132028.WAA02956@iaehv.IAEhv.nl> from "Willem Jan Withagen" at Jun 13, 95 10:28:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1346 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Willem Jan Withagen writes: (Re-directed to -questions) > We're running an ISP site and our newsdisk is giving us a hard time, but > it's real hard to replace the damn thing at the moment. > > What do we have: > A P90-asus with NCR controller with a quantum 2.1 Empire as sd2. Be sure you provide all the information about your installation. In this case, I need to know which release you are running. > And this baby is generating a medium error on just one location. > Jun 13 22:19:50 iaehv kernel: sd2(ncr0:2:0): medium error, info = 2817606 (decimal) Is this always the same "info" code? > The funny (??) thing is that this cause I/O errors in INN in serveral spool > directories. Even after I created a real large file to try and cover the bad > spot with just-another-file. > > So I'm starting to wonder: can the bad spot contain more than just one > directory which is getting trouble? It is probably a single spot. > But the real serious question: Is there any way of getting this ONE error > out of the way by just any reasonable method? I'll make some suggestions after I see what you're running. You have more options if you are running 2.05. Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267