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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: what does this SCSI error mean? And what do I do next?
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On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, Gary Stanny wrote:

> Last night my Seagate drive hanging off a 1522 started giving me this
> error.
> What does it mean and what can I do next? I have tried a fsck it also
> get these errors and aborts.
> 
> Has my disk bought the farm? The error - "error reading primary partition
> table"
> does not make me feel warm and fuzzy.

No, it looks like some sort of disk error all right.  You might try
pushing all the cables on and cooling the disk off for a while.
Otherwise, it doesn't appear to be responding to requests.

> Mar 14 20:23:54 diablo /kernel: sd0(aic0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:12,0
> Address mark not found for id field sks:80,1b
> Mar 14 20:23:54 diablo /kernel: , retries:4
> Mar 14 20:23:54 diablo /kernel: sd0(aic0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:12,0
> Address mark not found for id field sks:80,1b
> Mar 14 20:23:54 diablo /kernel: , retries:3
> Mar 14 20:23:54 diablo /kernel: sd0(aic0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:12,0
> Address mark not found for id field sks:80,1b
> Mar 14 20:23:54 diablo /kernel: , retries:2
> Mar 14 20:23:54 diablo /kernel: sd0(aic0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:12,0
> Address mark not found for id field sks:80,1b
> Mar 14 20:23:54 diablo /kernel: , retries:1
> Mar 14 20:23:54 diablo /kernel: sd0(aic0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:12,0
> Address mark not found for id field sks:80,1b
> Mar 14 20:23:55 diablo /kernel: , FAILURE
> Mar 14 20:23:55 diablo /kernel: sd0: error reading primary partition table
> reading fsbn 0 (sd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0)

Not good.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major