Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 13:34:46 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Fwd: Help, my sanity is gradually slipping awaaaayyy. was Re: Problem With Fujitsu SCSI Drive (Messages and Test Results)] Message-ID: <3097E7F6.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. -----------------------------140730798114994776041470031863 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I feel kinda sorry for this guy.. :-) -- Jordan -----------------------------140730798114994776041470031863 Content-Type: message/rfc822; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Path: reason.cdrom.com!nntp-ucb.barrnet.net!nntp-hub2.barrnet.net!pacbell.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!kiss.demon.co.uk From: phil@zipmail.co.uk (Phil Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help, my sanity is gradually slipping awaaaayyy. was Re: Problem With Fujitsu SCSI Drive (Messages and Test Results) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 23:12:17 GMT Organization: Lan Systems Lines: 107 Message-ID: <814835754.14804@kiss.demon.co.uk> References: <814658177.16718@kiss.demon.co.uk> <814741870.25823@kiss.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: phil@zipmail.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: kiss.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: kiss.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 phil@zipmail.co.uk (Phil Taylor) wrote: >phil@zipmail.co.uk (Phil Taylor) wrote: >>I am trying to set up FBSD 2.0.5R on a system with an Adaptec AHA1542B >>and a Fujitsu M2694ESA 1GB SCSI-2 Drive. >>It isn't working ...... >Still....... ditto >The messages I get are as follows : >sd0(aha0:0:0): HARDWARE FAILURE asc: 44,a2, FAILURE >sd0(aha0:0:0): HARDWARE FAILURE asc: 44,a2, Retries = x >sd0(aha0:0:0): HARDWARE FAILURE info: 2d18 asc 15,1 Mechanical >positioning error sks(80,f) >sd0(aha0:0:0): HARDWARE FAILURE info: 1d70 asc 15,1 Mechanical >positioning error sks(80,f) >vm_page : pager input (probably hardware) error, PID 11 failure Thanks to Julian Elischer I now know that major number 44 is internal target failure, but even fujitsu couldn't tell me what minor a2 means. (They have the book somewhere but couldn't find it 8:() However the Fujitsu engineer I spoke to said that it was (in his opinion) very unlikely to be a problem with the drive and more likely to be a mapping/translation problem. Since last night, it seems a very long way away now. I have tried various things. Here are the results. The hardware config is exactly the same for all OS's and I low-level formatted it every now and again and sometimes created a small dos partition. I have tried the following bios geometries. Cyl Hd Sect 1024 x 64 x 32 1034 x 64 x 32 1819 x 15 x 72 (The drives physical paramaters) and quite a few smaller ones (300 x 10 x 50 etc) I also accasionally used a 1542CF and attempted to use a Seagate ST-02 and a WD7000 (but the wd isn't in generic !!) By the way why does the ST02 floppy controller boot a 144 dos boot disk but not a FBSD boot disk (it reboots the machine). Anyway back to the plot. First I installed Novell 3.12 on the drive. It worked like a dream, I connected into it from another machine and was shooting around 50MB files with ease. NO DRIVE ERRORS Tried FBSD 2.0.5R a few times with various settings etc. DRIVE ERRORS I then thought what about another UN*X, I installed SCO 3.2v4.2 8-( It installed seemlessly (for a change) and I could not make it error even by repeatedly turning it off while copying multi 50MB files between filesystems. Each time fsck just sorted out and I got a prompt... NO DRIVE ERRORS Tried FBSD 2.0.5R a few times with various settings etc. DRIVE ERRORS Right, what about that MCC Linux v1.0 dist on my fileserver, I installed that (eventually) and up it came, copied 50MB files between filesystems, turned it off, let it fill up /usr by growing a file by piping it, and guess what, NO DRIVE ERRORS Brainwave, what about that 2.0R CDROM, lets give that a try. Managed to navigate fdisk/disklabel (you've made it too easy since then 8-)) and remembered that my old 1x mitsumi doesn't quite work with 2.0R so copied everything to a DOS partition, Worked fine (or so i thought) after a couple of re-boots I manually ran fsck and got a new message, sd0(aha:0:0:0) non-media hardware failure info = 266544 (decimal) Well they do say a change is as good as a rest 8-) Having now spent two days on this (> 13 hours today !!) If this were for a customer I would have scrapped the drive long ago (I wouldn't be able to justify the labour charges !), but it is for ME and I am dammed if I am going to let the thing beat me......(calming down) then again I might just retire and take up fishing ! If anyone but anyone has seen this, or used this configuration successfully PLEASE let me know. I don't understand why every other OS other than FBSD works... I might give NetBSD a try as it is about the only one I haven't (or at least it seems like it). Every other machine that I have running FBSD works perfectly so what is the difference ?????? As I am now babbling incoherantly I shall go........ Phil -----------------------------140730798114994776041470031863--
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