Subject: Distressing Messages.
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/26/1996 13:34:26
	Among my other problems (I'm back to my normal kernel right
now), I just started getting these messages on my console (this is all
of them):

sd5(si0:5:0): non-media hardware failure, data = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
sd5(si0:5:0): non-media hardware failure, data = 00 00 01 32 00 00 00 00 00 00
sd5(si0:5:0): medium error, info = 514848 (decimal), data = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
sd5(si0:5:0): medium error, info = 514848 (decimal), data = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
sd5(si0:5:0): medium error, info = 514848 (decimal), data = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
sd5(si0:5:0): medium error, info = 514848 (decimal), data = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
sd5(si0:5:0): medium error, info = 514848 (decimal), data = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
sd5(si0:5:0): medium error, info = 514848 (decimal), data = 00 00 01 30 00 00 00 00 00 00
sd5(si0:5:0): medium error, info = 514848 (decimal), data = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
sd5(si0:5:0): medium error, info = 514848 (decimal), data = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
sd5(si0:5:0): medium error, info = 514848 (decimal), data = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
sd5(si0:5:0): medium error, info = 514848 (decimal), data = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
sd5(si0:5:0): medium error, info = 514848 (decimal), data = 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
sd5(si0:5:0): medium error, info = 514848 (decimal), data = 00 00 01 32 00 00 00 00 00 00
sd5(si0:5:0): medium error, info = 514848 (decimal), data = 00 00 01 32 00 00 00 00 00 00
sd5(si0:5:0): medium error, info = 514848 (decimal), data = 00 00 01 32 00 00 00 00 00 00
sd5(si0:5:0): medium error, info = 514848 (decimal), data = 00 00 01 32 00 00 00 00 00 00

	Now... the system's still running... and I havn't noticed
anything wrong, but is this a sign of imanent disk failure?

Dave.

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