From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 16 15:09:26 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA02341 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 15:09:26 -0800 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA02334 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 15:09:22 -0800 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id SAA05853; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 18:05:04 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199503162305.SAA05853@hda.com> Subject: Re: your mail To: root@quicknet.techwood.org (System admin) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 18:05:03 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, timb@thud.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <199503162119.NAA23394@quicknet.techwood.org> from "System admin" at Mar 16, 95 01:19:30 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 882 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk System admin writes: > > Subject:Scsi problems.. > The following error's appeared when copying some files to a new 3 gig i got.. > /kernel: sd0(aha0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:00540a87 csi:00,00,0e,00 asc:09 fru:2, retries:4 > and info:00540a88 csi: 00,00,10,00 asc:09 fru:02, retries:4 That is a "track following error". Does it succeed after the first failure (that is, do you ever see anything other than "retries:4"?) > I assume i have to mark the sectors bad or something... You shouldn't have to. > How do i scan and mark all bad sectors...????? You usually don't. > Also what exactly does the above messages mean?.. Return the drive? I can't imagine why a new drive is having these problems. Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267