> sd0(ahc1:0:0):  Check condition on CDB: 0x28 00 00 44 e8 32 00 00 10 00
>     SENSE KEY:  Hardware Error
>      ASC/ASCQ:  Diagnostic Failure on Component 0x01
>      FRU CODE:  0x3

isn't it something like "SMART" but on SCSI?
that disk raport problems it detect.

>
> I assume that "FRU CODE" tells me what field-replaceable unit is bad.
> But I don't know what '0x3' refers to.  My guess is that it's the
> controller, since the disk is both new and was installed in response to
> previous indications of hardware failure.  (The drive is a Seagate 18G
> ST318461W; the controller is an Adaptec AIC-7890 on the motherboard.
> The machine is running NetBSD 1.5.2.)
>
> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
> 		Full text of "Firewalls" book now at http://www.wilyhacker.com
>
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