From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 24 10:09:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12821 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 May 1998 10:09:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12811 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 10:09:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00967; Sun, 24 May 1998 18:09:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <35685432.545B8E98@tdx.co.uk> Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 18:09:06 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sd0(ahc0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Watson wrote: > > sd0(ahc0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:0x2e389a asc:11,0 Unrecovered read error > , retries:4 > sd0(ahc0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:0x3be72d asc:11,0 Unrecovered read error > , retries:4 > sd0(ahc0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:0x3be72a asc:11,0 Unrecovered read error > , retries:4 This means the drive is dying... :-( The 0xZZZZZ address may be the block number, I'm not sure... I'd get the drive backed up soon if it has anything important on it... > These errors are not particularly informative to me (the uninitiated when > it comes to the SCSI driver under 2.2-STABLE). Any suggestions as to what > this actually means? Is this just a notification that the hard disk is > doing bad sector relocation in hardware, or is this a bus error, etc? Hmmm... I'm not sure what you'd get if it remapped the block, I doubt it would fail say more than once if it had remapped... Remapping is often 'off' by default on some drives... Either way - make sure you have the system backed up etc... Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message