Subject: Re: Can anybody help me?
To: Corlatan N. Manuel-Costin <manyk@fosila.cs.pub.ro>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/21/1999 18:42:42
> 
> 	I have a Microvax II machine with two ra81 disks and i get this
> messages:
> 
> Jan 18 23:42:51 fosila /netbsd: ra1: drive 1 soft error datagram (continuing): unit 1: lbn 0: drive error (drive detected error) (code 11, subcode 7)
> Jan 18 23:42:52 fosila /netbsd: 	sdi uproc error code 0x39, front panel code 0x1a
> Jan 20 19:30:37 fosila /netbsd: ra0: drive 0 soft error datagram (continuing): unit 0: lbn 0: drive error (sdi command timeout) (code 11, subcode 1)
> Jan 20 19:30:44 fosila /netbsd: 	sdi uproc error code 0x0, front panel code 0x0
> 
> 	I don't know what to do. This machine went down twice because of
> this problem with the disks. In this situation if the machine goes off, 
> next time when I boot it when fsck starts it doesn't see the tree and the
> system and I'm forced to reinstall the system again.
> 	Does anyone have an ideea why i get this ... I'm bored to do that 
> again and again ... forever?
> 
Simple: You have problem with your disks _or_ the SDI cabling is bad
somewhere. Soft errors usually do not cause any problems, but you may
have bad luck. Anyway; your problem is the hardware.

-- Ragge