Yes it was a write.... I see this message 9 times in /var/log/messages...
once in every 10 second.... The server crashed on the 9th try..... Had to
hard boot the server.

Derrick Lobo
-----Original Message-----
From: Thor Lancelot Simon [mailto:tls@rek.tjls.com]
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 2:15 PM
To: Derrick Lobo
Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Deferred error


On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:28:57PM -0400, Derrick Lobo wrote:
>
>
> HI All
>
> Anyone seen this error before....
>
>
> ul 17 08:15:03 newton /netbsd: Copied 4 bytes of sense data offset 12:
0xf1
> 0x0 0x3 0x3
> Jul 17 08:15:03 newton /netbsd: sd0(ahd0:0:0:0):  DEFERRED ERROR, key =
0x3
> Jul 17 08:15:03 newton /netbsd: sd0(ahd0:0:0:0): medium error, info =
> 50331648 (decimal)

This means that block 50331648 of your drive has gone bad.  Was the I/O a
write?  If so, the drive presumably spared the sector out and is just
telling you that it did so.