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- From: kgnome@cs.concordia.ca (MATIS stephane)
- Subject: Re: >>>HELP<<< PLEASE: Fujitsu hard disk problems
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:15:02 GMT
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- Wassim M. Jabi (wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu) wrote:
- : Hi:
- : I've been experiencing some trouble with my Fujitsu 520MB
- : external. It happens once or twice a week. I would hear the disk
- : go "click, click" and then the console window will have these messages
- : scrolling by. Many times an alert window would come up telling me
- : to save documents before logging out. Any idea what is going on?
- :
- : Messages:
- : ------ cut here -----------------------------
- : Target 0: HARDWARE ERROR; block 0H retry 1
- : Target 0: NOT READY; retry 1
- : Target 0: NOT READY; retry 2
- : .
- : .
- : .
- : Target 0: NOT READY; retry 19
- : sd0 (0,0): sense key:0x2 additional sense code: 0x4
- : SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch)
- : IO error on pagein: error = 5.
- : Dec 30 15:00:18 Workspace: Controller exited.
- : ------ cut here -----------------------------
- : HELP!!!!!!
-
- Well, as I can testify... that's not good news. My
- HD was DOA. It was a M2624F rev 0304 and it was just going
- click click ... no stop.
-
- Nothing worked! Fujistu techie said that it was the drive
- was unable to read it's own specification area! Yikes!
-
- Now I have another one, a rev 0404 that arrive a week ago.
- This one requires absulutelly no jumper modifications, as
- it talks lingua franca SCSI either way. Nice improovment.
-
- Personally, I'm looking for the sense on a 1024 Byte
- formated one... anybody ?
-
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