From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 14 13:41:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4E7F37B423 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:41:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8EKcYj50471; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 07:38:35 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 07:38:33 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: Jean-Francois Dockes Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, "Kenneth D. Merry" Subject: Re: SCSI retries without errors in /var/log/messages? In-Reply-To: <14784.33648.251152.511680@localhost.dockes.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG About two months ago (back in July), I got some alarming error messages about one of my disks, which has been spinning constantly since it was turned on several years ago: > (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): Voltage fault field replaceable unit: f3 sks:80,3 > (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 0 0 50 0 30 0 0 c 0 > (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): RECOVERED ERROR asc:15,1 > (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): Mechanical positioning error field replaceable unit: 1 > (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): READ(06). CDB: 8 0 c8 8 8 0 > (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): RECOVERED ERROR info:c809 asc:17,1 > (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): Recovered data with retries field replaceable unit: f3 sks:80,4 > (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): WRITE(06). CDB: a 0 c0 58 8 0 > (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): RECOVERED ERROR info:c058 asc:65,0 > (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): Voltage fault field replaceable unit: f3 sks:80,3 > (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): READ(06). CDB: 8 0 17 10 8 0 > (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): RECOVERED ERROR info:1711 asc:17,1 > (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): Recovered data with retries field replaceable unit: f3 sks:80,4 > (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): WRITE(10). CDB: 2a 0 0 51 0 30 0 0 c 0 > (da1:ahc0:0:3:0): RECOVERED ERROR asc:15,1 These messages appeared for a few days and then went away! The disk is still in operation, and I havn't had any errors from it since... but its death is on the the back of my mind... Oh yeah, its a: da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 4095MB (8388315 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 4095C) On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Jean-Francois Dockes wrote: > Kenneth D. Merry writes: > > SCSI errors that we recover from aren't logged. > > I think that most SCSI retries should be logged. ... > Better to be warned earlier. > > (There are also the retries caused by scsi protocol problems - bad > bus - but these are usually followed by a bus reset which is logged ?) > > And, by the way, 'recovered errors' sense keys (problems solved > internally by the device) should also be logged for the same reason, > only more benign, (but I'm not too sure that many devices actually > generate these). > > Jean-Francois Dockes > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message