Xref: utzoo comp.periphs:3573 comp.periphs.scsi:2152 comp.unix.xenix.sco:1939 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!lll-winken!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!mhres!asacsg!kr From: kr@asacsg.mh.nl (Koos Remigius) Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.xenix.sco Subject: Re: Problem with CDC Wren V scsi disk - advice requested Message-ID: <1991Mar14.145749.228@asacsg.mh.nl> Date: 14 Mar 91 14:57:49 GMT References: Organization: ASAC Nederland b.v. Lines: 55 From article , by ccfj@hippo.ru.ac.za (F.F. Jacot Guillarmod): > We are using a 300 megabyte CDC Wren V + AHA1542A controller on a 386 > clone running SCO Xenix 2.3.2. All of a sudden, the following errors > are getting logged: > > Fri Mar 1 8:25:34 > > scsi: ERROR: on disk dev=1/40 ha=0 id=0 lun=0 block=37364 > sector=76776, cylinder/head = 37/31 > hst 00 ust 02 > AHA-1540 cmd : 0A 01 2B E8 02 00 > AHA-1540 sense : F0 00 03 00 01 2B E9 0A 00 00 00 00 10 00 > > The system is still running, though. > > Questions: > > 1 - what is going on? (nobody around here knows all that much about > scsi's :-() > > 2 - what needs to be done to fix the problem? > > 3 - which FM's should I be reading to find out more? > > Thanks > -- > F.F. Jacot Guillarmod - Computing Centre - Rhodes University > Artillery Road - P.O Box 94 - Grahamstown - 6140 - South Africa > Internet: ccfj@hippo.ru.ac.za Phone: +27 [0]461 22023 xt 284 > uucp: ..!uunet!m2xenix!quagga!hippo!ccfj Fax: +27 [0]461 25049 Item 1 > cmd : 0A 01 2B E8 02 00 meaning: Write 2 blocks, starting at block $12BE8 = 76776 During the write an unrecoverable error occured. sense: F0 00 03 00 01 1B E9 0A 00 00 00 00 10 00 meaning: There is a media error at block $12BE9 = 76777, the 10 means < ID CRC or ECC error. > Item 2 > To fix this, reformat the disk or replace the bad block. Item 3 > Any book that describes the SCSI command's should help. Cheers, Koos -- Koos Remigius kr@mh.nl via internet backbones Asac Nederland B.V uucp: ..!{uunet,hp4nl}!mh.nl!kr Coenecoop 7, 2741 PG Waddinxveen, The Netherlands ---------------- "Still crazy after all these years" ----------------