Re: SCSI error or bad drive

From: Tommy Reynolds (TommyReynolds_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/28/04


Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:36:32 -0500

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:46:24 +0100, Tom wrote:

> DAC960#0: Physical Device 1:3 Sense Data Received
> DAC960#0: Physical Device 1:3 Request Sense: Sense Key = B, ASC = 48, ASCQ = 00
> DAC960#0: Physical Device 1:3 Request Sense: Information = 00000000 00000000
> DAC960#0: Physical Device 1:3 Errors: Parity = 1, Soft = 0, Hard = 0, Misc = 0
> DAC960#0: Physical Device 1:3 Errors: Timeouts = 0, Retries = 0, Aborts = 0, Predicted = 0
>
> and the SCSI device agent reported
>
> SeqNo=41 ctl=0 ch=1 tgt=3 lun=0 Event= 1C:MLXEV_PHYSDEV_REQSENSE
> at Tue Apr 27 23:39:21 2004 and message logged at Tue Apr 27 23:39:21 2004
> CC:70 KEY:0B ASC:48 ASCQ:00 initiator detected error message received
>
> does this look like a disk error or a controller issue? perhaps bad cable or something?

If you just got <10, I would ignore them. Parity errors are usually
benign transient problems. They could be early warnings or just a phase
of the moon problem.

Of course, if you get tons of errors you might get worried about that
physical disk media.

Keep an eye on this.



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