On Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:11:03 -0500 Robert Wuest <rwuest@ix.netcom.com>
writes:
>Hi,
>
>I've got this 1.3 Gig SCSI drive that's about to go out. It has to
>warm
>up for about 30 minutes when starting cold (not kidding) and for the
>most part runs fine until a storm comes along and causes the power to
>drop. (Yes, I know, a new drive and/or a UPS would fix this).
>However,
>every now and then, it produces a read error and I get this panic:
>
>SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 28000002
>Current error sd08:02: sns = f0 4
>ASC=15 ASCQ= 1
>Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x04 0x00 0x22 0xef 0x75 0x28 0x00 0x00 0x00
>0x00 0x15 0x01 0x00 0x80
>scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:02, sector 1245228
>Kernel panic: EXT2-fs panic (device 08:02): ext2_read_inode: unable to
>read i-node block - inode=155765, block=622614
>
>This is a Fujitsu M2651SA on an Adaptec 2940 controller. Kernel is
>2.0.21 (although the behaviour has been the same for quite some time,
>now). System is a P/100, 48 meg RAM.
>
>Does the SCSI driver retry after an error? When I get an error access
>a
>dos partition on the same drive from within dos, I usually don't get
>the
>error a second time.
>
>After this happens, I can't shut down clean, not even my other drives.
>It becomes a permanent error and I have to hit reset to recover my
>system. Sync locks up, init fails to init, reboot just prints it's
>message and does nothing else. Surely this doesn't have to have such
>catastrophic effects.
>
>Any advice on how to clean up the error without having to reboot?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Robert
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