On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 11:32:11AM +1000, Ray Phillips wrote:
> Dear Port Alpha:
> 
> I have NetBSD/1.4.1 running on an Alpha 3000/400.  This morning when I
> arrived at work I found it had developed a serious problem.  There were a
> lot of messages on the telnet window I'd left open and many more on the
> console, some of which I've appended to this message.  It kept responding
> with "i/o error" when I tried to investigate from the tty window, so I
> pushed the halt button and turned it off and on.  Fortunately it came back
> up normally (after cleaning the file system).
> 
> Would anyone care to speculate on the cause and if it's likely to happen again?

From the logs, I'd says you have a problem on the scsi chain. Check cables,
termitators, etc.
Maybe it's just a dying disk. I've seen something similar one time,
after trying changing cable and terminators I just swapped the drive with
another one and problems went away.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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