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From: djc@Kesa.COM (Don Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Fujitsu 1.2Gb disk on Sun
Message-ID: <1991May14.212335.2480@Kesa.COM>
Date: 14 May 91 21:23:35 GMT
References: <1991May9.191941.2377@mprgate.mpr.ca> <1991May11.222214.20364@scuzzy.in-berlin.de>
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src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) writes:

>parker@mprgate.mpr.ca (Ross Parker) writes:

>>I've set up a Fujitsu 2266 disk on a Sun SPARC 2 system, and
>>am experiencing some problems.

>>Namely, I'm getting lots of fatal read and write errors in
>>the system error log, yet when I scan the disk for bad blocks
>>I encounter none. The errors are reported in blocks appearing
>>all over the disk. There are no errors on the internal drive
>>on the system, which indicates that the SCSI controller is ok.

We had a similar problem on our IPC that was solved by disabling the
cache on the drive.  We were told that the cache worked fine on an SS2,
but that may not be true.

-Don
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