>Now the other day one of the Quantum drives, sd3, which just happens
>to be part of my news spool, started producing errors of the form
>    sd3(bt0:4:0): medium error, info = 3878640 (decimal),
>	data = 00 00 00 00 11 00 00 00 00 00
[tales of other drives acting weird...]

Try replacing, or at least completely re-seating, your SCSI cables.

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