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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Disk read errors?  FAILURE?
Date: 22 Apr 1996 06:25:42 GMT
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden
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cfanning@jingoro.prevmed.sunysb.edu (Chris Fanning) writes:

>: >Apr 18 06:14:06 jingoro /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:3cd0d1
>: >    asc:16,0 Data synchronization mark error

>Unless someone threw a blanket over my case that drive is the coolest drive
>I've ever used.  It's well ventilated, even cool to the touch.
>
>Sector reallocation was and _is_ on!

Then i would take this error message as a serious warning sign that
your drive needs to be replaced.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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