SUMMARY: SCSI disk problem...

From: Benoit Audet (baudet@atmosphair.com)
Date: Mon Nov 11 2002 - 17:14:49 EST


Special thanks to:
    * Randy Romero
    * Galen Johnson
    * Darren Dunham
    * Hichael Morton
    * Jerry Stachowski
    * Mark Preston
    * Peter Stokes
    * Julie Peers
    * Rene Casalme
You may find that I'm a strange guy, but I'm, in a way, happy to tell that
I was right: the disk is dead. There's no doudbt in my mind now,
especially after receiving all your awnsers. Everybody had the same
opinion: the disk is dead! ;-)

Thanks again! Here's my original post:

>Hi Mamangers,
>
>I have this error message when trying to use a SCSI 9.1GB SCA 80-pins disk:
>
>WARNING:
>/iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@5,8400000/esp@5,8800000/sd@3,0 (sd3):
> Error for Command: load/start/stop Error Level: Retryable
> Requested Block: 0 Error Block: 0
> Vendor: IBM Serial Number:
> Sense Key: Not Ready
> ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU: 0x0
>
>At the OK prompt level, when I do a "probe-scsi-all", it seems to work
>well, giving me all the info about the disk, using the default target 3
>(where it stands physically in my SPARCstation). But when I start the
>install process of Solaris, I have this message appearing many times.
>
>Of course, Solaris doesn't install and exits to the # single usermode
>prompt. At this point, I try to use the "format" utility, and when trying
>to search for the disks, the error is coming back. Also, when I get to
>the "format>" prompt and I select the disk, I have to specify the disk
>type manually (it doesn't detect it automatically). Of course, none of
>the "format>" commands work.
>
>I browsed the web and found (to much) few anwsers about something that may
>be related to this, and it seems to be related to an hardware problem. In
>other words, the disk has a physical failure.
>
>My question is: is it the case? ;-)
>
>Thanks to all!
>__________________________________________
> Benont Audet
>
> C.E.P Atmosphair Inc.
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>
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__________________________________________
   Benont Audet

   C.E.P Atmosphair Inc.
   1600G Route de l'Airoport
   St-Jean Chrysostome (QC) G6Z 2L2
   418.834.7272 1 877 834.7272

   baudet@atmosphair.com
   http://www.atmosphair.com
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