[SunRescue] ss20 error

[D.A. Muran-de Assereto]

I've seen one case of a Sense Key error being caused by a bad controller.
The machine (SS20) had removable drives, and some idiot pulled them while
the machine
was running.
The drives survived beautifully, but the on-board SCSI was never the same;
it produced
random garbase and errors on known good drives until we got the hint and
replaced the machine
from depot.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Taren
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 14:08
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] ss20 error


Every time I've seen a sense-key error, it's been an indication that the
drive
is going, or has already, bad.  As this is a hardware failure, I'd back up
as
much as you can from the drive, and install a new hd.  You might try
reformatting it to see if that clears the error, but I don't think that
normally
works.

>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Drelich [mailto:hyena at interport.net]
> > Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 7:10 AM
> > To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: Re: [SunRescue] ss20 error
> >
> >
> > Hmm, just tried set it "Motor Start" and no such luck, still
> > the same errors.
> > :(  The webpage for the system is
> > http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/scsi/st39173wc.html
> > if anyone has the
> > time to help me figure out this mystery, it would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> > Chris
>
> You've got me pretty well stumped, at least for a weekend.  You might try
> putting the drive into the other SCA slot, just for good luck, or trying
> another SCA drive in that slot of the SS20, to determine if something has
> gone bad on the backplane or something.  I really don't know.
> 	Greg
>
> P.S. I know I didn't snip, but I'm hoping somebody else will take a look
at
> this and reply with the right answer...
>
> >
> > Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Chris Drelich [mailto:hyena at interport.net]
> > > > Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 10:27 AM
> > > > To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> > > > Subject: [SunRescue] ss20 error
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Can someone tell me what this might mean, and how I might go
> > > > about fixing it?
> > > > This is on an ss20, the problem drive is a Seagate
> > > > Baracuda(ST39173WC), I've
> > > > been trying many things and asking many people, and yet to
> > > > get a answer that
> > > > gets it to work.  This hard drive is known to be working, so
> > > > thats not the
> > > > problem. This is the error:
> > > >
> > > > WARNING:
> > > >
> > /iommu at f,e000000/sbus at f,e0001000/espdma at f,400000/esp at f,800000/sd at 1,0 :
> > > >         Error for Command: load/start/stop        Error
> > > > Level: Retryable
> > > >
> > > >                 0
> > > >         Vendor: SEAGATE                           Serial Number:
> > > >         Sense Key: Not Ready
> > > >         ASC: 0x4 (LUN not ready), ASCQ: 0x0, FRU: 0x2
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > It does this a few times and then goes "offline."
> > >
> > > Hmm, what are the jumpers set to on this drive?  That
> > doesn't look to me
> > > like an SCA part number, but I never can remember, maybe
> > that's what the C
> > > means...  Basically the error message is saying that the
> > drive is not
> > > replying to the load/start/stop commands.  How is the
> > auto-start/spin-up
> > > jumper set?  Try chaning that.  IIRC, the termination power
> > jumper should be
> > > removed on internal drives to the SS20, if the drive has
> > one.  It's been a
> > > while since I've played with those drives, so maybe they don't have
> > > termpower.
> > >         Greg
> > >
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