Sense Key 4: Hardware Error - your hardware is busted.

ASC/ASCQ is vendor unique. Typical, 0x44 indicates an
internal target problem- I'd guess some electronics
issue about not getting a stable pll signal from the heads
(just to grab something random out of my ass).

DATs have a high failure rate, but for the money are
the best low end storage solution (IMHO). And Archive
was the best at this for quite some time. The HP/Bristol
folks made a decent stab at things, but those drives
sure have been pieces of junk (in the first year or
so all drives for that cute little six slot changer
that I heard about died). The Sony is quite nice, but
it's also pricey enough to consider bargain older
DLT technology.


On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Michael C. Richardson wrote:

> 
>   Can anyone point me in the right direction to decoding the following
> error?
> 
> ...
>  /netbsd: st0(ahc1:6:0):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x0a 00 01 00 00 00
>  /netbsd:     SENSE KEY:  Hardware Error
>  /netbsd:      ASC/ASCQ:  ASC 0x44 ASCQ 0xbc
>  /netbsd: 
>  /netbsd: st0(ahc1:6:0):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x10 00 00 00 02 00
>  /netbsd:     SENSE KEY:  Hardware Error
>  /netbsd:    INFO FIELD:  -619708416
>  /netbsd:      ASC/ASCQ:  ASC 0x44 ASCQ 0xbc
>  /netbsd: 
> ...
> 
>   This is a
> 
> st0 at scsibus0 targ 6 lun 0: <ARCHIVE, Python 28849-XXX, 4.CM> SCSI2 1/sequential removable
> st0: density code 0x24, 512-byte blocks, write-enabled
> ch0 at scsibus0 targ 6 lun 1: <ARCHIVE, Python 28849-XXX, 4.CM> SCSI2 8/changer removable
> ch0: 4 slots, 1 drive, 1 picker, 0 portals
> 
>   Frankly, I've had it with this piece of junk, and I ordered a new drive
> on Thursday, but I thought I'd give the cleaner and drive one last chance.
> 
>   My SCSI bus is now very clean with terminators at both ends that are
> on the cable rather than using the drive. My SCA drive and tape drive still
> do not work. 
> 
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