Subject: Re: Deferred error
To: Derrick Lobo <derrick@givex.com>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/18/2005 14:15:11
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:28:57PM -0400, Derrick Lobo wrote:
> 
> 
> HI All
> 
> Anyone seen this error before....
> 
> 
> ul 17 08:15:03 newton /netbsd: Copied 4 bytes of sense data offset 12: 0xf1
> 0x0 0x3 0x3
> Jul 17 08:15:03 newton /netbsd: sd0(ahd0:0:0:0):  DEFERRED ERROR, key = 0x3
> Jul 17 08:15:03 newton /netbsd: sd0(ahd0:0:0:0): medium error, info =
> 50331648 (decimal)

This means that block 50331648 of your drive has gone bad.  Was the I/O a
write?  If so, the drive presumably spared the sector out and is just
telling you that it did so.