Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:17:26 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: wjgrun@poboxes.com (Bill Grunfelder) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware Failure error message Message-ID: <19970314091726.QU31302@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970313204041.007e5480@mail.cybernex.net>; from Bill Grunfelder on Mar 13, 1997 20:40:41 -0500 References: <3.0.1.32.19970313204041.007e5480@mail.cybernex.net>
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As Bill Grunfelder wrote: > Any hints as to what this error message means? With two or three people per week asking this question, seems we ought to right a FAQ entry for it... :) > The drive seems to be running OK, but I get this error message 2 or > 3 times a day. (And I don't like the way it sounds I wouldn't like it either. > Mar 13 11:18:13 machinename /kernel: sd1(bt0:5:0): HARDWARE FAILURE asc:1,0 > No index/sector signal I think this is pretty obvious, isn't it? The drive doesn't find some of its synchronization marks. I wouldn't trust it for any important data. Perhaps reformatting might help you. /sbin/scsiformat -wq sd1... I've got a drive that sometimes gets a lot of them: /kernel: sd0(aha0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:1e030 asc:14,0 Recorded entity not found field replaceable unit: 38 /kernel: , retries:3 /kernel: sd0(aha0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:1e030 asc:14,0 Recorded entity not found field replaceable unit: 38 /kernel: , retries:2 /kernel: sd0(aha0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:1e030 asc:14,0 Recorded entity not found field replaceable unit: 38 /kernel: , retries:1 Anyway, it's 1.2 GB of scratch space, and despite of these messages, i have even seen `make world's completing on this drive. So i don't throw it away but use it for experimenting, release tests, SCSI device driver stress tests :) etc. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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