Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: dieter@titan.nmt.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: shoe-box disk errors Message-ID: <8811230013.AA21116@titan.nmt.edu> Date: 3 Dec 88 16:59:13 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 18 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 88 17:13:59 MST X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 35, message 3 of 18 The symptoms: On a fairly regular basis, with no apparent correlation to power outages, our shoe-box disks will start generating complaints of the form: sd0b: write retry, blk 11736 (abs blk 27648) sense key(0x3): medium error, error code(0x10): I.D. CRC error The actual error code/message changes, as does the partition. I often see "retry" and "read". Re-formatting seems to clear it up (for a time), but I'd prefer to avoid the problem altogether. Ideas? Dieter Muller -- dieter%nmt@relay.cs.net dieter@jupiter.nmt.edu