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To: Janick TAILLANDIER <Janick.Taillandier@ratp.fr>
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Subject: Re: Disk problem
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Janick TAILLANDIER wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have an Adaptec 2940UW and a Fujitsu M2952Q disk.
> Here are the relevant boot messages on FreeBSD 2.2-961014-SNAP
> kernel:
> 
> Nov  4 14:25:34 chaconne /kernel: ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 15 on pci0:17
> Nov  4 14:25:34 chaconne /kernel: ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs
> Nov  4 14:25:34 chaconne /kernel: ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
> Nov  4 14:25:34 chaconne /kernel: ahc0: target 6 Tagged Queuing Device
> Nov  4 14:25:34 chaconne /kernel: (ahc0:6:0): "FUJITSU M2952Q-512 0124" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
> Nov  4 14:25:34 chaconne /kernel: sd0(ahc0:6:0): Direct-Access 2291MB (4693462 512 byte sectors)

your drive is reporting that it is sick..
This message comes all the way from the drive.
it is very unlikely that software has anything to do with it..
it is not a bad block.. there is a different message for that.


> 
> I am now getting repeated messages such as and lots of I/O errors:
> 
> sd0(ahc0:6:0): HARDWARE FAILURE asc:44,84 Vendor Specific ASCQ
> , retries:4
> sd0(ahc0:6:0): HARDWARE FAILURE asc:44,84 Vendor Specific ASCQ
> , retries:3
> sd0(ahc0:6:0): HARDWARE FAILURE asc:44,84 Vendor Specific ASCQ
> , retries:2
> sd0(ahc0:6:0): HARDWARE FAILURE asc:44,84 Vendor Specific ASCQ
> , retries:1
> sd0(ahc0:6:0): HARDWARE FAILURE asc:44,84 Vendor Specific ASCQ
> , FAILURE
> 
> Has anybody an idea of what is hapening ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Janick Taillandier