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From: fraserr@frc.frc.maf.govt.nz (Robert Fraser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Controller problem on RC3240
Message-ID: <859@frc.frc.maf.govt.nz>
Date: 8 Mar 91 05:03:27 GMT
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Organization: Ministry of Ag. and Fish., Information Networks, Wellington, NZ.
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We have an RC3240 that has just had its system disk (~300Mb CDC 94171) die 
and it was replaced with a ~600Mb CDC 94191.

On both disks we were occasionally getting the following error :

SCSI 0L0:
SERR=0x1<OffEr>
SCSI hardware ERROR status: 86 Hardware Failure
SCSI 0L0 cmd=0xA retrying(1)
fuji spc hardware error detected

It is a bit of a worry.  Can anyone tell me what this means?  I am installing
RISC/os 4.52 at the moment and it is coming up a lot in the installation.

Previously we were running 4.30 and 4.51 of RISC/os (and it happened with both
of those versions...).  We also have two Maxtor 8670 676Mb drives on the SCSI
in a separate cabinet.

Any help appreciated,
Robert

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Robert Fraser                 |   Ministry Of Agriculture and Fisheries
fraserr@frc.maf.govt.nz       |   PO Box 2526, Wellington
ph  +64 4 744 232             |   New Zealand