On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Stefan Schmiedl wrote:

> After a year of non-Unix work I reformatted my Quantum Lighning 730 hard
> drive and installed a copy of NetBSD 1.2 I downloaded shortly after it
> was released but had no time to install then.
> 
> Before installation I tested the drive with my HardDisk Toolkit and it
> found no bad blocks or dreadful things like that.
> 
> Then I partitioned the drive for 450 MB root&usr, 64 MB swap, and the
> rest as hfs. I watched the NetBSD installer for some hours (sigh) and
> then booted the system. Everything worked fine, just as I remembered
> with 1.1 before.
> 
> But today I encountered scsi problems such as
> 
> sd0(ncrscsi0:2:0): medium error, info 326258 data 00 25 00 c0 00 12 00
> 00 00 00
> 
> when reading from a file on disk. Second try resulted in
> 
> sd0(ncrscsi0:2:0): medium error, info 326258 data ff fe 01 03 29 00 b6
> db 6d
> 
> Third try was the same as first try.
> 
> It was not the first time that I could not read a file on disk anymore
> and it seems to happen much more often than in the good old 1.1 days,
> when I wondered about people having drive problems.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should do? Use some other
> kernel (URL please)? Buying another hard drive is not an option.
> Upgrade to 1.3, where the problem will be fixed?

Try grabbing a kernel with the sbc scsi driver and see if that helps.
There should be one in the same place as you got your distribution kernel,
just has an sbc in the filename.


Hope that helps,
David

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