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From: jeremy@perf2.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 'drive faulted' error message
Message-ID: <70018@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 23 Sep 90 20:41:45 GMT
References: <9009221751.AA01139@mcirps2.med.nyu.edu>
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In article <9009221751.AA01139@mcirps2.med.nyu.edu>, karron@MCIRPS2.MED.NYU.EDU writes:
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> 
> 
> What does this error message mean on my console (not in syslog):
> 
> command 82 try 1 ips0d1s7: bn=65873 IOPB
>  word1=821E unrecovered 'drive faulted'
> 
> Is this a real problem ? Or is this noise ?
> 
> I get this once and a while. Which disk is causing it ? Which
> controller ?
> 

It is a real problem, but for now the system is recovering.  The driver
will retry 3 or 4 times on errors like this.

ESDI controller 0, drive 1