Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 22:58:23 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI error code 83 and 84, medium errors Message-ID: <199602270658.WAA01783@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Feb 1996 01:32:24 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.91.960227013134.3793M-100000@zip.io.org>
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Well, if it is brand new sometimes that is even more of reason to suspect the drive. You can try formatting the drive however the problem may surface later on. I am not a scsi expect however sometimes you may have to reformat the drive with the current controller. This is not really an easy solution . In my case I chose to reformat the disk for it to finally fail a few months later. However on its way to die it cause daily lock ups on my system which I suspected were scsi cabling problems. Okay, the system was running fine with an adaptec 1542cf however I decided to upgrade to an adaptec 2940 scsi controller. Originally, we had problems with the driver so I couldn't tell if I had scsi cabling problems however after Justin cleaned up the driver I started suspecting my hardware. Finally after a month of tearing apart replacing terminators and cables my scsi disk died. With my new scsi drive I have not one single disk related crash. Where as before my system would crash once or twice a day. The morale of the story if you suspect a scsi disk replace it if not take a note so if you get weird scsi bus problems at least you know whom to suspect assuming the usual -- you are sure about your cables and termination. Amancio >>> Brian Tao said: > On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote: > > > > Not too long ago I trashed my old scsi disk. Sometimes, disk errors are > > just an early warning that the drive is going bad. > > Gads, I hope not... this drive was part of a shipment of about ten > brand-new drives (Quantum 2GB Atlas and Seagate 1GB Medallist). I > suppose they are still under warranty, at least. > -- > Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) > Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc. > "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" >
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