>Sigh.  My nice little 486DX/33 PC installation of NetBSD/i386 1.0 was doing
>just fine until recently, when all of a sudden it started getting struck by a
>rash of disk errors.
>On practically every sync() now, I get a small rash of the error messages in
>the Subject: field; more specifically, the last few have been:

>ias-pc:1:30 [/var/log] % tail -5 messages
>Apr 21 23:29:01 /netbsd: sd0(aha0:0:0): medium error, info = 441482 (decimal)
>Apr 21 23:29:01 /netbsd: sd0(aha0:0:0): medium error, info = 441482 (decimal)
>Apr 21 23:29:22 /netbsd: sd0(aha0:0:0): medium error, info = 441494 (decimal)
>Apr 21 23:29:23 /netbsd: sd0(aha0:0:0): medium error, info = 441494 (decimal)
>Apr 21 23:29:29 /netbsd: sd0(aha0:0:0): medium error, info = 441496 (decimal)

Remove and re-seat all your SCSI cables.  I had exactly this problem
and it was just bad SCSI connections.  Alternatively, make sure your
termination is correct.

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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