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Re: [Linux-scsi] my medium errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Thomas)
Wed Feb 23 20:22:29 2000
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:37:20 +1100
From: Jason Thomas <jason@topic.com.au>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002231002380.15173-100000@athena.intergrafix.net>; from mlist@intergrafix.net on Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 10:10:47AM -0500
I am still dealing with the problems I had with my SDT-9000, they have
finally decided to replace it with a new one. As I posted on the list
before. Locking up the machine in linux and spontaneously rebooting under
windows. I think the problem was that I did not clean it regularly.
Admin Mailing Lists [mlist@intergrafix.net] wrote:
>
> while we're on medium sense errors, I also have a problem.
>
> Chain 1. AIC7880 onboard (term.), 9G SCSI, Sony SDT-9000, Toshiba CD-ROM
> (term.)
> Chain 2. Adaptec Ultra2 controller, 18G SCSI
> linux, libc 5.4.38, kernel 2.2.10 SMP, bru 15.0
>
> A week ago I had my 18G drive go bad, grinding like anything, got it
> copied over to a new drive before the SCSI errors started.
> The DAY after I replaced it, the 9G drive does the same thing, got almost
> all of that copied over before the errors started.
> A few days after that, my tape drive is being odd..some days backing up
> fine, some days not at all, some days just a few gigs. The tape drive is
> about 2 years old..been thouroughly cleaned once.
>
> I see this from "dmesg"
> st0: Error with sense data: Current error st09:00: sense key Hardware
> Error
> Additional sense indicates Internal target failure
> st0: Error with sense data: Current error st09:00: sense key Medium Error
> Additional sense indicates Internal target failure
> st0: Error on write filemark.
> st0: Error with sense data: Current error st09:00: sense key Medium Error
> Additional sense indicates Internal target failure
>
> Any help or insight is appreicated. The hard drives themselves I have had
> go bad due to grinding in many-a servers. No major environmental changes
> going on.
>
> -Cygnus
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> On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Carles Perello wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > Do a low level verify not a format first. Verify checks and reassigns iffy
> > > and failed blocks but doesnt destroy the data (hopefully)
> >
> > Which utility can I use for that? Michael's one? I am still adapting the
> > tcl frontend to run it under tcl v8
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > Carles
> >
> >
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