Re: AIC7xxx driver problems

Mike Pellatt (mike@ktgroup.co.uk)
23 Feb 1996 00:36:08 GMT


To follow up my own posting:

In article <4gge70$jub@lurch.ktgroup.co.uk>, Mike Pellatt wrote:
>In article <199602202023.OAA20434@sparc17.cs.uiuc.edu>, roth mark daniel wrote:
>>When trying mke2fs:
>>
>>aic7xxx: Target 0 underflow - wanted (at least) (15360) got(1024) count(3).
>>aic7xxx: Target 0 underflow - wanted (at least) (15360) got(1024) count(3).
>>aic7xxx: Target 0 underflow - wanted (at least) (15360) got(1024) count(3).
>>SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 18000000
>>Current error sd08:02: sense key Medium Error
>>Additional sense indicates Unrecoverred read error
>>scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:02, sector 800

[snip]

>>Is this a driver problem, or do I have something configured wrong?
>>Has anyone else had this problem? Any info on this is appreciated!
>
>Sigh. Just got that this evening, but on a partition that had been
>mkfs'ed fine and had loads of data on it. All ready to take to a
>customer tomorrow :-(
>
>My config is AMD DX4/100, 2940 PCI, Linux 1.3.57.

Turned out to be bad blocks on the disk. Repeatedly ran verify until no
more errors - will see how a re-install goes tomorrow.

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