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From: jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: 3B1 Silent Heart Attacks
Message-ID: <243@amanue.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 11:42:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: amanue.243
Posted: Sat Oct 10 11:42:14 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 21:31:59 EDT
Organization: Amanuensis Inc., Grindstone, PA
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Keywords: unix.log errors soft

Uh oh.  I DON'T LIKE THE LOOKS OF THIS!  I'd been pretty sloppy at paying
attention to /usr/adm/unix.log.  Took a look last night and just about died.
After extracting floppy errors and blank lines I'm left with lines like:

drv:2 part:0 blk:0 rpts:3 Mon Sep 21 20:23:44 1987
drv:2 part:0 blk:0 rpts:2 Mon Sep 21 23:49:51 1987
drv:2 part:0 blk:0 rpts:1 Tue Sep 22 02:39:15 1987
drv:2 part:0 blk:0 rpts:2 Wed Sep 23 00:29:02 1987
drv:2 part:0 blk:0 rpts:1 Wed Sep 23 01:03:08 1987
drv:2 part:0 blk:0 rpts:1 Sat Sep 26 16:16:28 1987
drv:2 part:0 blk:0 rpts:1 Sat Sep 26 23:51:40 1987
drv:2 part:0 blk:0 rpts:2 Sun Sep 27 23:56:31 1987
drv:2 part:0 blk:0 rpts:1 Sun Sep 27 23:57:52 1987
drv:2 part:0 blk:0 rpts:1 Sun Sep 27 23:58:02 1987
drv:2 part:0 blk:0 rpts:1 Sun Sep 27 23:58:07 1987
drv:2 part:0 blk:0 rpts:1 Tue Sep 29 01:07:11 1987
drv:2 part:0 blk:0 rpts:2 Tue Sep 29 01:21:23 1987
drv:2 part:0 blk:0 rpts:1 Tue Sep 29 17:11:01 1987

Are these soft errors that were corrected on retry?  I'm quite sure I never
got a !! icon over them on the status line.  Boy does that look scary!  Block
0 -- ouch!!  Is partition 0 swap space?  I have this sinking feeling ...

To all outward appearances the machine is behaving just fine.  Since the last
entry is more than 10 days ago (there were older ones I didn't show) I can't
remember if these were all cases where I rebooted, but it doesn't look like it.
They don't seem to go all the way back to when I first got the machine.

Hallllp!
-- 
 Jim Rosenberg
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