Re: Dead brand new SCSI drive?

From: Qingyu Zhang (zjane_at_americasm01.nt.com)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:50:19 -0500

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Steve Schreiber wrote:

> Edward Alfert wrote:
>
>>> No sure about the sdb14 thing, seems strange to me that you would be
>>> getting
>>> in I/O error on a slice that does not exist (yet),
>>
>>
>>
>> From what I have learned:
>>
>> Majornumber 8, Minornumber 0 = first scsi harddrive
>
> <snip>
>
>> But I believe "Device 08:30" might actually be correct because 30 hex
>> = 48.
>
> Hey,
>
> arg, hex .... of course. Didn't even cross my mind... good work on
> that! You are correct.
>
>
>>
>> This matches /dev files
>> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 30 Feb 16 11:44 sdb14
>> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 48 Feb 16 11:41 sdd
>>
>> To eliminate the above files being corrupt or something weird about
>> them, I actually deleted the above files and recreated them using:
>> mknod <file> b <major> <minor>
>
> -- There is actually a script in /dev just for doing that called
> MAKEDEV so you don't have to know the maj/min... for future reference. ;)
>
>>
>> I did some research on the error codes shown in /var/log/messages.
>> ASC 04h is bad. 04h = HARDWARE ERROR
>
> -- I would say that is a bad error for sure.
>
>>
>> My guess is that the drive is bad.
>>
>> I called Maxtor support and described how I connected, terminated,
>> and set scsi ID, and they said it all sounded correct. But, Maxtor
>> won't replace until I download a diagnostic utility to floppy, boot
>> the server using the floppy, and print out the log showing if the
>> utility detected a hardware problem.
>
> -- Sounds simple enough. For fun tell them you are on a Sparc.. :)
>
>>
>> It it turns out NOT to be a bad harddrive, I'll let you know what it
>> was.
>
> -- cool, please do that! even if it is ... post back or something!
>
>>
>> Again, thanks for your help.
>>
> -- no probs. Good luck with it!
>
> S.
>

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