hacking SCO....

[Matt Emmerton]

> Well, I eventually got this SCO system working. But today, some errors
> appeared:
>
> 505k:unrecover error reading  SCSI disk on 0 Dev – 1/42
> cha = 0 id = 0 1 on = 0
> Block 6578
> medium error unrecovered read  error
> HTFS i/o failure occurred while  trying to upgrade 1 node 26302 on
> HTFS. Dev hd 1/42
> Error log over flow block 6578  medium error unrecovered read error .
>
> Do these sound likes hardware errors for the drive or the adaptec card
> itself? The drive is brand new (well, its actually a replacement from
> acer with a date code on it from 1998 so it has been sitting in a box
> for awhile). However, the card is very old too. Any ideas?
>
> -john

"medium error unrecorvered read error" really sounds like a phsycial medium
(drive) error.
If the controller was flaky, you'd get bus retries and stuff.

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Matt Emmerton