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From: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: HELP: Seagate ST157N-1 error code...
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.083444.28747@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 91 12:34:44 GMT
References: <1283@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl> <1991Apr22.184054.20179@ecst.csuchico.edu> <11853@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
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In article <11853@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, cliff@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Clifford Stein) writes:
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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?
>

$15 - seek positioning error
$17 - Recovered read data with controller/drive READ retries

I occasionally get a $17 (usually when my dog jumps onto the desk :-).  A 
$15 would worry me.  These are quoted from the ICD manual, which should be 
in the possession of said babooze.  This is an ICD feature, and has nothing 
to do with the device.

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