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From: jeremy@perf2.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Drive Faulted error on Console
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Date: 3 Dec 90 21:53:52 GMT
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In article <1990Nov30.151130.408@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>, paquette@cs-sun-fsa.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Trevor Paquette) writes:
> 
>   Last week we added a PI to our netwoork and have all the user 
> accounts on a 220 GTX. Lately on the GTX we have seen the following
> error:
> 
>    ips0d1s7: drive faulted (code 1E) chs=5/9/0  ...about to do first retry
> 
>  What does this mean? What can/should we do to fix it?

It means that the disk controller detected a drive fault error.  It could
be bad/loose cables, a bad disk, or a bad controller.  Check the cable
connections, and if it continues, have it serviced.