From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 14 11:51:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 507A514C31; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:51:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id TAA14283; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 19:55:21 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA01242; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 20:11:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 20:11:21 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Mike Smith Cc: Rahul Dhesi , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to rewrite the data field replaceable unit? Message-ID: <19991214201120.F1003@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <19991214120034.10BC021C@waltz.rahul.net> <199912141757.JAA03135@mass.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199912141757.JAA03135@mass.cdrom.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 09:57:11AM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD yedi.iaf.nl 3.3-STABLE FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 09:57:11AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > Mike Smith writes: > > > > >> (da2:ahc0:0:2:0) Unrecovered read error - recommend rewrite the data field replaceable unit: 20 sks:80,a0 > > ... > > > > >That's two things, 'data' and 'field replaceable unit'. The FRU code > > >tells you which part of the drive is failing - in this case the vendor > > >code for the broken bit is '20'. > > > > Thanks. > > > > A suggestion to the Device Driver Gods: Please make error messages > > understandable to the rest of us. > > That's kinda difficult, actually. Error messages need to be accurate and > understandable to people that understand what's really going on. It's > not the job of an error message to explain how the hardware works. To add to that: FRU codes are vendor/product unique. So in this case you cannot be more specific from the driver's point of view. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands - The FreeBSD Project WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message