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From: dtb@adpplz.UUCP (Tom Beach)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: HELP: Seagate ST157N-1 error code...
Summary: SCSI error codes
Keywords: Seagate wanted help ST157N-1
Message-ID: <691@adphdw20.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 91 17:27:18 GMT
References: <1283@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl> <11853@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Organization: ADP Dealer Services R&D, Portland, OR
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> I get sense codes every once in a blue moon, usually right after I tell my
> friends I never have problems with my HD.  I'm using a Seagate 157N, I think.
> It's a 48.8 meg mechanism with ICD host adaptor and software.  What are
> sense $17 and $15 errors.  I think those are the only two I've had.  Can I
> get a listing of sense errors?  Who would I write to, ICD, Seagate, or the
> babooze who I bought the HD from and might have neglected to give me the
> info?

SCSI ERROR CODES:

01 No index/Adress mark found
02 No seek complete
03 Write Fault
04 Drive not ready
08 Logical Unit Communication failure
09 Track following error
10 ID CRC or ECC error
11 Unrecovered read error
12 No address mark in ID field
14 No record found
15 Seek positioning error
17 Read error recovered with retrys
18 Read error recovered with ECC
19 Default List error
1A Parameter overrun
1C Primary defect list not found
1D Compare Error

These were taken from a Seagate manual for a drive different from yours.
Most of them are defined by the SCSI spec so should be standard for all
drives which support them. All drives do not support all error codes.

Tom

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