From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 00:01:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87DF216A4CE for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 00:01:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from skippyii.compar.com (test.compar.com [216.208.38.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A39143D3F for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 00:01:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (CPE00062566c7bb-CM000039c69a66.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.193.82.185])i9807Vgw026446; Thu, 7 Oct 2004 20:07:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <001601c4acc9$97b0b200$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matt Emmerton" To: "John Von Essen" , References: <200409272324.i8RNOfds008071@laps.jhs.private> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 19:58:48 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Subject: Re: hacking SCO.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 00:01:43 -0000 > Well, I eventually got this SCO system working. But today, some errors > appeared: > > 505k:unrecover error reading SCSI disk on 0 Dev – 1/42 > cha = 0 id = 0 1 on = 0 > Block 6578 > medium error unrecovered read error > HTFS i/o failure occurred while trying to upgrade 1 node 26302 on > HTFS. Dev hd 1/42 > Error log over flow block 6578 medium error unrecovered read error . > > Do these sound likes hardware errors for the drive or the adaptec card > itself? The drive is brand new (well, its actually a replacement from > acer with a date code on it from 1998 so it has been sitting in a box > for awhile). However, the card is very old too. Any ideas? > > -john "medium error unrecorvered read error" really sounds like a phsycial medium (drive) error. If the controller was flaky, you'd get bus retries and stuff. -- Matt Emmerton