Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 11:08:34 +0200 (MET DST) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Cc: "Ron Klinkien" <rklinkien@chello.nl> Subject: Re: Recovered data with positive head offset field replaceable unit msg Message-ID: <200105060908.f4698Y407800@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <001d01c0d571$09711300$0404a8c0@smalweer.nl>
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"Ron Klinkien" <rklinkien@chello.nl> wrote: > The SCSI drive is not that old btw, it even has an SCA80 connector, > it's an hot swappable disk that SUN uses in it's E450 machines for > example. I'd take it as an indication of good firmware. You're getting an advance warning, so even if the drive doesn't fail immediately, you know that it might fail some day, and can arrange for it (like keeping a spare one around, or retiring it for non mission-critical data). -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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