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- From: jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Bad SMD drive?
- Keywords: Disk, SMD
- Message-ID: <prtsp6s@sgi.sgi.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 00:05:06 GMT
- References: <1314@tecsun1.etl.army.mil>
- Sender: jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In article <1314@tecsun1.etl.army.mil>, mullane@tecsun1.etl.army.mil (Kevin Mullane) writes:
- > I am getting lot's of these messages accumulating in /usr/adm/SYSLOG.
- > Does my disk need replacing, reformatting or could it be the controller?
-
- One of those three, most likely. It could also be grounding or cabling.
- After you fix grounding and cabling problems, though, you have to
- reformat anyway. You should try forwarding the bad blocks, but that
- is only a temporary solution, usually.
-
- >
- > Sep 8 15:59:12 lambert unix: xyl0d1: header not found. c/h/s = 74/8/72
- > (retrying)
- > Sep 8 16:00:08 lambert unix: xyl0d1: header not found. c/h/s = 237/8/58
- > (retrying)
- > Sep 8 16:00:08 lambert last message repeated 2 times
- > Sep 8 16:00:08 lambert unix: xyl0d1: header not found. c/h/s = 237/8/58
- >
- > We've got a 4D/80GTB running 3.3 with a SMD 4-drive rack.
- > If the drive is bad is it worth replacing/repairing it?
-
- New SCSI drives are a lot cheaper and more reliable, if you aren't on
- maintenance.
-
- >
- >
- > --
- > Kevin Mullane at the U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center, Bldg. 2592
- > Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-5546 TEL:(703)355-2792 NET: mullane@tec.army.mil
-
- jeremy
-