From: Iain Drummond (idrummon@receptor.mgh.harvard.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 11 2004 - 10:21:15 EST
My new Sun Fire V440 is showing unusually unstable behavior. I have been
setting it up and compiling a fair amount of opensource software and then
periodically running fsck to make sure all is well. each time fsck is run
there are alot of file system errors; more than I have ever experienced on
my Ultra5. The last time I ran fsck, several directories of recently
installed software were deleted; I presume errors were found in their
filesystems and fsck removed them. I have looked at the messages file in
/var/adm and find that the disks are showing read/write errors.
I need to decide 1) if these are serious, 2) if i need to rebuild from
scratch after disk reformatting, and 3) if the disks are faulty and (while
under warranty) need to be replaced.
I am also curious to know if local environmental factors can cause disk
instability like this. The V440 is temporarily on a shelf with a sun monitor
sitting on top of it and a power cord sitting next to it. Bad idea?
these are examples of the worrisome disk errors. i surmise from the serial
numbers that all 4 of the internal 36 GB disks are showing errors. I find it
hard to believe that Sun would ship 4 faulty disks.
thanks for any help
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scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@1f,700000/scsi@2/sd@1,0 (sd2):
Error for Command: write Error Level: Retryable
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Requested Block: 16
Error Block: 16
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Vendor: HITACHI
Serial Number: 0350S1N8L0
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Sense Key: Unit Attention
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] ASC: 0x29 (<vendor unique code 0x29>), ASCQ:
0x3, FRU: 0x0
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@1f,700000/scsi@2/sd@3,0 (sd4):
Error for Command: write Error Level: Retryable
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Requested Block: 1472
Error Block: 1472
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Vendor: HITACHI
Serial Number: 0350S1NRB6
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Sense Key: Unit Attention
e code 0x29>), ASCQ: 0x3, FRU: 0x0107833 kern.notice] ASC: 0x29
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@1f,700000/scsi@2/sd@2,0 (sd3):
Error for Command: write Error Level: Retryable
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Requested Block: 1472
Error Block: 1472
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Vendor: HITACHI
Serial Number: 0350S1MYYK
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] Sense Key: Unit Attention
scsi: [ID 107833 kern.notice] ASC: 0x29 (<vendor unique code 0x29>), ASCQ:
0x3, FRU: 0x0
-- Iain Drummond, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Renal Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital idrummond@partners.org idrummon@receptor.mgh.harvard.edu Lab Home Page: http://danio.mgh.harvard.edu _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
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