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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Problem with CDC Wren V scsi disk - advice requested
Message-ID: <9103172318.31@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 91 09:37:00 GMT
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Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
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In article <ccfj.667889673@hippo> ccfj@hippo.ru.ac.za (F.F. Jacot Guillarmod) writes:
>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
			       ^^
Sense byte 2 - error 3 hex - this is a media error 

If it is always at the same cylinder and head, it is a bad block.

Get a SCSI manual for your hard drive, and use it to figure out the sense
bytes.



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