>From: saw@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (Hauke Fath)
>At 1:30 Uhr 03.09.1996, Scott Reynolds wrote:
>>On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood] wrote:
>>
>>> To throw in another POV, I've had similar problems with my brand-spanking-
>>> new (Quantum) internal drive on my PB145, both with NCRSCSI and sbc,
>>> but the drive checks out fine.
>>
>>I think it's crucial to point out that the disk corruption that Chris is
>>talking about is "physical," i.e. medium errors.  This is not the same as
>>data corruption, which a couple people have reported.  The latter is why I
>>even started working on the sbc SCSI driver in the first place (and is
>>something I hope to continue soon).
>>
>just to add another data point to the collection: here's what I've seen
>some minutes ago.


>sbc0: pdma_in: timeout len=8192 count=8192
>sd2(sbc0:2:0): medium error, info = 426678 (decimal), data = b6 db 6d b6
>db 6d b
>6 db 6d b6 db 6d b6 db 6d b6 db 6d b6 db 08 06 82 b5

This is quite similar to what I saw, except I didn't get the initial error
messages cause I wasn't on console, the machine simply froze.

The medium error above is (almost) _exactly_ what I get.

Could all the various symptoms above be the same as my problem??  Does this
tell us anything??

How can I verify that this isn't a hardware problem??

I'm going to try some new kernels this weekend and will probably be
reformatting and running a bunch of tests on the drive.

Thanks for the help

-c

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