Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!sgi!shinobu!odin!anchor!olson From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Fuji 2266SA problem Message-ID: <1991Apr10.055118.16695@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 10 Apr 91 05:51:18 GMT References: Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA Lines: 30 In tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) writes: | Does anyone have experience with Fujitsu 2266SA disks in power series | workstations? I've installed these disks in three of our hosts (a | 4D/210, a 4D/320 and a 4D/340 all running Irix 3.3.2), and they seemed | to work fine. However, now that they are getting serious use, I've | begun to see this message appear in SYSLOG: | | dks0d2s10: Unrecoverable device error: Internal controller error. I can't speak to the rest of the problems, but this actually *IS* descriptive. The driver is reporting in pseudo-English just what the drive has just reported, namely that there was an internal error on the embedded controller that could be recovered from. In other words, a command failed with check condition status, and the primary sense code was 4 (Unrecoverable device error), with an additional sense code value of 0x44 (Internal controller error). The driver is passing on to you as much info as it got from the drive. It doesn't sound like this error is related to jumper settings, but it is possible. These (or similar) wordings are found in the request sense descriptions in most scsi device manuals. -- Dave Olson Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.