[868] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: scsi 2940 controllers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Urlichs)
Sun Nov 3 10:00:43 1996
From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 1996 12:28:03 +0100
In linux.dev.scsi, article <2.2.32.19961028192441.00693f04@mail.bluesky.net.au>,
tommiy <tommiy@bluesky.net.au> writes:
> Can anybody please help stop my system from locking up, please. It seems to
> be an impossible task.
>
In fact, it is very easy to do that..:
> heading because I just cant get linux to be stable! Can someone else offer
> some suggestions as to what causes the error below?
>
> scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 3, lun 0, CDB: 0x0 a 13 29 c1 f4 00
Did you ever look at the error message, and think about what MEDIUM ERROR
might actually mean?
You just have a bad spot on your hard disk.
Now, the fact that the system doesn't recover from the error _is_ a bug, all
right, but it's not the source for your problem...
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