On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 10:47:41PM -0800, Robert Kennedy wrote:
> I'm getting errors like the following every several minutes on my 486
> machine:
> 
> Nov 11 22:49:53 bigbird /netbsd: sd1(aha0:1:0):  Check Condition on opcode 0xa
> Nov 11 22:49:53 bigbird /netbsd:     SENSE KEY:  Soft Error
> Nov 11 22:49:53 bigbird /netbsd:    INFO FIELD:  113
> Nov 11 22:49:53 bigbird /netbsd:      ASC/ASCQ:  Peripheral Device Write Fault
> Nov 11 22:49:53 bigbird /netbsd:      FRU CODE:  0x9
> Nov 11 22:49:53 bigbird /netbsd:          SKSV:  Actual Retry Count: 1
> Nov 11 22:49:54 bigbird /netbsd: 
> 
> Does this mean I'm shopping for a new disk drive now, or what?
> 
> How can I make it stop?

I'd say that your disk has bad blocks. You can try to use scsictl to reassign
it. But if there's a lot of them you'd better look for a new disk.

> What is the meaning of the info field and FRU code?

I believe the info field if the block # which failed. Don't know
what FRU CODE is.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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