Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 23:23:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to rewrite the data field replaceable unit? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912142319530.42968-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19991214120034.10BC021C@waltz.rahul.net>
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On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Rahul Dhesi wrote: > Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> 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. How is this not understandable? It presents the problem, "Unrecovered read error," and even is nice enough to suggest a solution, "recommend rewrite the data." How would you rewrite this to be more "understandable", yet still provide the same amount of information? This is like the newbies that ask "What does it mean when it says '/usr: file system full'?" :-/ Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org PS: If you like terse error messages, try Linux. Things go wrong and you *might* get a message. And if you do, it *might* bother to decode the ASC for you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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