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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Probs with Adaptec 2940 ???
Date: 17 Apr 1996 21:33:12 GMT
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden
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robinson@nrnsinc.on.ca (Ken Robinson) writes:

>Any ideas?  This is on a newly installed news server and the problem
>is starting to get annoying.  ;-).

If it's announced as MEDIUM ERROR, and it's a new disk, did you try
contacting the vendor?  Judging from your report, this is with 99.9 %
probability a hardware failure.  (There might be possible software
workarounds, but if the disk is new, i would return it.)

-- 
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. ;-)