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From: phil@zipmail.co.uk (Phil Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem With Fujitsu SCSI Drive (Messages and Test Results)
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 21:10:06 GMT
Organization: Lan Systems
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phil@zipmail.co.uk (Phil Taylor) wrote:

>I am trying to set up FBSD 2.0.5R on a system with an Adaptec AHA1542B
>and a Fujitsu M2694ESA 1GB SCSI-2 Drive.

>It isn't working ......

Still.......

I ran the novell disk test last night (and tonight it took 18 hours)
and it DIDN'T find any problems.

I have tried various other geometries but received the same effect, I
have also low-level formatted a couple of times for good measure !!!!

I also tried making the FBSD partition about 50MB smaller ...

The messages I get are as follows :

sd0(aha0:0:0): HARDWARE FAILURE asc: 44,a2, FAILURE
sd0(aha0:0:0): HARDWARE FAILURE asc: 44,a2, Retries = x
sd0(aha0:0:0): HARDWARE FAILURE info: 2d18 asc 15,1 Mechanical
positioning error sks(80,f) 
sd0(aha0:0:0): HARDWARE FAILURE info: 1d70 asc 15,1 Mechanical
positioning error sks(80,f)
vm_page : pager input (probably hardware) error, PID 11 failure

Quite worrying messages but what exactly do they mean ?????

I always get worried when a machine shouts HARDWARE FAILURE......

Cheers 

Phil
(seeming not to get any further, sob......)