Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!lzsc!hcj
From: hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Need explanation of ICD error-message !!!
Summary: a guess; trouble
Message-ID: <1295@lzsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 14 Feb 90 14:47:02 GMT
References: <1204@unido.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T BL Middletown/Lincroft NJ USA
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In article <1204@unido.UUCP>, cs@walhalla.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Chris Schmidt) writes:
> I own a harddrive with ICD hardware and software.
> After a long time without any problems I now get an error-message once in a
> while.
> The ICD harddisk-driver says SENSE $16 or SENSE $17 in the top-line of
> my desktop.
> Who knows what this message means and if I'll get into trouble reading my
> data from the drive ????

THIS IS SPECULATION:

The Adaptec/SCSI standard has error codes assigned.  They are returned to
the driver when something goes wrong.  If it were by driver, I would print
them.  Hex 16 and 17 are "NOT ASSIGNED".  But the group 10-18 are for
reporting bad things.  Thus I think 16 and 17 are bad also.

From Adaptec 4000A Manual:
Error codes:
10	ID CRC ERROR
11	Uncorrectabel data error
12	ID address mark not found
14	Record not found
15	Seek error
16-17	Not assigned
18	Data check in no retry mode

Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
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