From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 14 23:24:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A9FA37B423 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 23:24:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id AAA83657; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 00:24:15 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 00:24:15 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Andy Farkas Cc: Jean-Francois Dockes , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI retries without errors in /var/log/messages? Message-ID: <20000915002415.B83469@panzer.kdm.org> References: <14784.33648.251152.511680@localhost.dockes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from andyf@speednet.com.au on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 07:38:33AM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 07:38:33 +1100, Andy Farkas wrote: > > 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... That looks like a power problem of some sort. Voltage fault, positioning errors, etc., could certainly be caused by power problems. (Could be your actual power feed, your power supply, a loose power cable, any number of things.) Evidently the drive was able to recover from the problems, though. > 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) Isn't that a first generation Barracuda? I hope you have it well cooled. :) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message