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Re: scsi : aborting command due to timeout

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Fri Oct 2 03:14:05 1998

Date: 	Fri, 2 Oct 1998 09:03:53 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Claudiu Balciza <cbalciza@geocities.com>
cc: Linux SCSI <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000501bdedd1$37f20e80$0300010a@claudiu.altex.ro>

On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Claudiu Balciza wrote:

> Oct  1 01:05:13 digital kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid
> 125633, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (6) 05 40 63 f4 00
> ----------------------
> 
> At that time it was executing updatedb.cron, logrotate and database sweep
> As I remember, this happened before (yet rare) but I cannot remember if it
> happened
> under kernel 2.0.35 I used previously.
> What does that means ?
> Is there any _danger_ message  hidden ?

When I started getting these messages I didnt think there was something
majorly wrong, or that it was a cable fault. After about 2 months I
started to get bad sectors on my / mounted Quantum Atlas 2gig. It got
worse and worse over time. My theory is that these above messages are
because the drive starts retrying to read sectors and succeeds after a lot
of attempts. I replaced the drive shortly afterwards and after low level
formattning it I now use it for non-crucial temp storage.

Then again, it might be a cable problem too. Be warned, though.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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