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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!chi-news.cic.net!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!lrz-muenchen.de!faui0n.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem With Fujitsu SCSI Drive (Messages and Test Results) Date: 29 Oct 1995 18:25:17 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 26 Message-ID: <470ddt$1id@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <814658177.16718@kiss.demon.co.uk> <814741870.25823@kiss.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Phil Taylor <phil@zipmail.co.uk> wrote: >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 ????? It's a strong recommendation to throw this disk into the bit-bucket. :-( Well, ain't ``Mechanical positioning error'' plainly english enough to read it? You could perhaps use this device as a slow /dev/null... -- 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. ;-)