[2553] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Write Errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Mon Sep 29 02:07:13 1997
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 23:03:54 -0700
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu
CC: F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970926101557.24574A-100000@mutt> (message from
Robert Johannes on Sat, 27 Sep 1997 12:08:28 -0500 (CDT))
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 12:08:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu>
I hope Zubkoff can hear me:
My quantum Stratus drive (ultra scsi)came with the newer firm ware which
is I think 0F0C, the same one that you are offering as an upgrade on your
page at dandelion.com/Linux/Quantum.html.
Despite having the newer firmware in my stratus, the drive is increasingly
spitting out write errors, and the bus is increasingly being reset all the
time because of time out errors due to the quantum host. Is there
something else that could be wrong with this drive? It also makes hissing
noise (the kind you hear when the drive is spinning up) each time the
drive is being accessed by a heavy process. It even produces that noise
when I move the mouse cursor in X. Is there a fix to this problem with
this drive?
This noise problem sounds like the disk is not at all healthy. The Stratus
drive I tested briefly was reasonably quiet and I don't recall any unexpected
noises from it. Chances are that the timeout problem is due to the drive not
functioning properly, rather than due to a firmware bug. If you are using
tagged queuing with this drive, you might want to try disabling it and see if
that eliminates the write errors.
But most importantly, I suggest you backup any data on this drive as it may well
fail completely very soon.
Leonard
