Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!cirm.northrop.COM!frobinso From: frobinso@cirm.northrop.COM (Fletcher Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: kernel and tar errors Message-ID: <8806151244.aa15986@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Date: 15 Jun 88 16:40:43 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 I have come up against two problems on our new 4D 70G. One machine with very little user activity(..waiting for software..), after sitting idle for several days will begin to display the following error : error in kernel #42 severity=2 , etc. This locks me out of the system with the only way to recover is to power down. After power is restored, it functions as before for several days until it displays the same error again. Another problem is using tar to backup files. There is a profusion of the following error message: 1ps0d0s6: error csr=0x4000 bn=?????? statcode=83 recovered, errcode=0x1 accompanied sparingly by : tp7: (18) correctable data error Anyone have any insight into these errors? Are they aviodable?