Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:24:10 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Todd Cohen <cohentl@clarkson.edu> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is this device bad? Message-ID: <20010424102410.A99321@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10104241208330.425-100000@vador.aoc.clarkson.edu>; from cohentl@clarkson.edu on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:10:27PM -0400 References: <200104241333.f3ODXPB08809@ct980320-b.blmngtn1.in.home.com> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10104241208330.425-100000@vador.aoc.clarkson.edu>
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:10:27 -0400, Todd Cohen wrote: > Well, I don't know how to do a low level format on this machine.. it's an > AlphaStation. I ran the following as someone else suggested, it doesn't > report any errors.. but later in dmesg I get errors: > > camcontrol format da1 That is a low level format. > da1 at sym0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 > da1: <SEAGATE ST410800N 7114> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8) > da1: Attempt to query device size failed: MEDIUM ERROR, Medium format > corrupted > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:31,0 > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): Medium format corrupted field replaceable unit: 1 > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:31,0 > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): Medium format corrupted field replaceable unit: 1 > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:31,0 > (da1:sym0:0:4:0): Medium format corrupted field replaceable unit: 1 If those errors popped up after the format (you might want to power cycle as well), then you've probably got a bad drive. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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