From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Dec 18 13:15:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02762 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 13:15:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02754 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 13:15:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from searle@longacre.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.156.24] (helo=longacre.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 0zr7F0-0007l9-00; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 21:15:18 +0000 Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 21:05:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael Searle Subject: Re: Is this error as important as it looks: HARDWARE FAILURE asc:44,0 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199812180438.VAA78249@panzer.plutotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Organization: Who, me? X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.46] Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri 18 Dec, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > You might want to check and see if it is running too hot. Here's a script > that might do that, depending on whether your firmware supports it. (I've > tried it on the 18G version of that drive, with firmware version 03B0, and > it works fine.) > > ======================================== > #!/bin/ksh > > TEMPC=`camcontrol cmd -n da -u 1 -c "4D 0 76 0 0 0 0 0 20 0" -i 32 "s9 i1"` > > TEMPF=`echo " 2 k $TEMPC 9 * 5 / 32 + p" | dc` > > echo "The temperature is: $TEMPF F" > ======================================== > > I think the default temperature threshold (before it starts spewing errors) > is 60C. Ideally, though, you'll want to run a good bit cooler than that. > > You'll need to change the '-u 1' above to '-u 0' for your drive. > > Ken Is this a general SCSI command that could be used on anything, or specific to IBM drives / that model? Mike -- csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message