[2613] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: SCSI medium error
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Sun Oct 12 11:21:07 1997
From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
Date: 12 Oct 1997 16:58:48 +0200
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David J Brenneman <brennemd@emu.edu> wrote:
> When I run the command "dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap bs=1024 count=8192"
> the machine effectively locks up, and I have to physically reset it.
> When I reboot and run e2fsck I get the following error:
2.0.3x kernels seem to be very buggy regarding virtual memory handling.
I suggest running 2.0.27.
Also note that the Quantum Fireball have a bug pertaining to command
queuing, thus if your driver is using it, disable it.
> SCSI 0 Medium Error on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB Request Sense 00 00
> 00 10 00 Current Error sd08:02: sense key medium error Additional
> sense indicates unrecovered Read error scandisk I/O error dev 08:02
> sector 689984
This is a hard error with a SCSI device.
