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#! rnews 2094 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!206.105.201.34!news1.smatnet.net!news6.smatnet.net!usenet From: Girish Chandangoudar <girish@smatnet.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Media error message on BSDI 2.1 Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 07:51:33 -0400 Organization: Sprint Mid-Atlantic Operations Lines: 39 Message-ID: <33A91D45.7BEF@smatnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparky.smatnet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:7030 Hello, I am getting the following errors persistently: Jun 14 11:42:25 server kernel: sd1: sn 11579498: media error: unrecovered read error Jun 14 11:42:25 server kernel: sd1: retry 1 Jun 14 11:42:31 server kernel: sd1: sn 11579840: media error: unrecovered read error Jun 14 11:42:31 server kernel: sd1: retry 1 Jun 14 11:42:32 server kernel: sd1: sn 11579861: media error: unrecovered read error Jun 14 11:42:32 server kernel: sd1: retry 2 Jun 14 11:42:32 server kernel: sd1: sn 11579854: media error: unrecovered read error Jun 14 11:42:33 server kernel: sd1: sn 15645896: media error: unrecovered read error sd1 is a 9GB seagate disk. The application reports a input/output error and quits. When this happens if I run "pwd" or "ls" commands at the directory which was reported to be in error, I get Input/output error. Sometimes, the problem seems to clear itself after a while as I can run "pwd" and "ls" commands and read and write to the files in that directory. I have to run fsck in most of the cases to clear any disk problems. Is this a disk problem or controller (Adaptec 2940) problem? I have another disk (2.1GB) and it does not seem to suffer from the same problem as this 9GB disk which is used heavily. Thanks in advance. Girish