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Re: NCR success
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
Wed Jul 12 13:12:35 1995
To: eric@eenisn1.leeds.ac.uk (Eric Aardoom)
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jul 1995 09:55:40 BST."
<9507110855.AA08490@eenisn1.leeds.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 23:12:25 -0600
From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>
In message <9507110855.AA08490@eenisn1.leeds.ac.uk>, eric@eenisn1.leeds.ac.uk w
rites:
>Hi there,
>
>I thought I'd let people know I finally identified the cause of the
>problems I've been having with my NCR 53c810 controller and a DEC
>RZ26L drive. After applying Drew's NCR patches to linux 1.2.10 the bus
>faults I'd been seeing disappeared. Instead the kernel message file is
>now filled with sector errors :( If there are real sector errors, the
>guy who sold me this disk is going to get a good frying ....
What do you mean by sector error? If you get something like
"Media error", those are hard errors on the drive; and some one
should write a short program which does a REASSIGN_BLOCKS
SCSI command.
The driver disables itself when something Very Bad (tm) happens
until the next bus reset; any commands you try to run between those two
events should fail with a DID_BAD_TARGET, these will also indicate some
sort of bad errors.
You might want to post the exact messages you're getting.
