Xref: utzoo alt.sys.sun:1969 comp.periphs.scsi:1324 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!know!ladcgw.ladc.bull.com!melb.bull.oz.au!sjg From: sjg@melb.bull.oz.au (Simon J. Gerraty) Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: WREN-IV's on 386i no good? Message-ID: <1990Nov9.202105.26802@melb.bull.oz.au> Date: 9 Nov 90 20:21:05 GMT Sender: @melb.bull.oz.au Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Australia. Lines: 37 Nntp-Posting-Host: sun0 We have just had another 327Mb (WREN-IV) die on one of our 386i's here. I am wondering whether there is some fundamental problem with these disks (that would be strange as the Sun sales rep assurred me the reason they were so expensive was all the quality testing done... :-) or whether in fact it is a fault in the SCSI controller or driver in the 386i. The original WREN-IV in my 386i died less than 12months old. I replaced the disk with a WREN-IV sourced through Bull. It was cheaper than the quote from CDC to have the disk repaired! The WREN-IV in the 386i that died this week was not supplied by Sun but by Bull also. A replacement WREN-IV that was installed in the system gave the same error almost imediately. In all three cases the error(s) were: sense key(0x4): hardware error, error code(0x9): servo error sense key(0x4): hardware error, error code(0x44): unknown error I think my original disk only gave the error code 0x9 servo error. The 386i that lost the disk this week was still running SunOS 4.0.1 I do not recall whether at the time of my disk's death my 386i was running 4.0.1 or 4.0.2. I'd be interested to know how many other folk have had problems with these disk, or whether it is something wrong with the 386i. Although CDC reported my disk as needing to be shipped to the US for repair I am not sure whether they confirmed the fault. If in fact it is just brain death in the 386i, the paper-weight on my desk may actually be useful! Though I have seen nothing in the User Distributed BugList. -- Simon J. Gerraty #include /* imagine something *very* witty here */