Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 18:09:06 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sd0(ahc0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR Message-ID: <35685432.545B8E98@tdx.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980524115143.17751A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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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
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