[H-GEN] Disk errors under solaris

[Snowy Angelique Maslov aka 'Snowpony']

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On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Michael Anthon wrote:

> It relates to errors reported for the disks.  For example...
> 
> sd0     Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 134 Transport Errors: 1388
> Vendor: IBM      Product: DNES30917SUN9.0G Revision: SAD0 Serial No:
> 99401MF747
> Size: 9.06GB <9055065600 bytes>
> Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 129 Recoverable: 0
> Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
> 
> (greping for the error line for all devices...
> sd0     Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 134 Transport Errors: 1388
> sd6     Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 4
> sd7     Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 1 Transport Errors: 0
> sd8     Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 4 Transport Errors: 18
> sd9     Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 3 Transport Errors: 0
> sd10    Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 129 Transport Errors: 117
> sd11    Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 125 Transport Errors: 117
> st5     Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
> st8     Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 2 Transport Errors: 0
> 
> I can't seem to find anything that gives an explanation of what the
> error types mean.  Anyone happen to know what these are and should I be
> panicing and running around looking for replacements?

You will notice at the top that all the errors come from "no device" (at least
sd0 is) which usualy comes from SCSI timeouts.  Go through the rest and you
will likely find a similar scenario.  By the looks of it you have either a
dodgy SCSI backplane/terminators or cabling.  I'd investigate these areas
first.

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