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Date:      Fri, 15 Sep 2000 00:24:15 -0600
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
Cc:        Jean-Francois Dockes <jean-francois.dockes@wanadoo.fr>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI retries without errors in /var/log/messages?
Message-ID:  <20000915002415.B83469@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009150721400.42823-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au>; from andyf@speednet.com.au on Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 07:38:33AM %2B1100
References:  <14784.33648.251152.511680@localhost.dockes.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009150721400.42823-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au>

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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: <SEAGATE ST15150N 0017> 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


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