eric@lucii.org on 5 Nov 2004 02:05:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] strange kernel messages


On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 08:47:59PM -0500, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
> On Nov 4, 2004, at 7:01 PM, eric@lucii.org wrote:
> > I'm seeing the following entry in a server /var/log/message file and 
> > I'm
> > not sure what it means.  I'm thinking it's not good.
> >
> > Nov  4 16:26:16 sirius kernel: Current sd08:11: sense key Recovered 
> > Error
> > Nov  4 16:26:16 sirius kernel: Additional sense indicates Failure 
> > prediction \
> >  threshold exceeded
> >
> > Yes, the machine has SCSI drives.
> >
> > Google is not helpful.  The only links I find are to files that I 
> > believe are
> > kernel source files.  If I could readily interpret the source files I 
> > would
> > not need google.
> >
> > Anybody experience this or have a clue?
> 
> http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/scsi_sense_keys.html
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SCSI-Programming-HOWTO-21.html
> 
> http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?scsi_extended_sense+9S
> 
> --
> Tobias DiPasquale
> 202A 04C4 2CE6 B985 8520  88D6 CD25 1A6C B9B5 1595

I think I "get it"...  It's not a disk drive error (necessarily)
but some kind of SCSI error (like a clash on the bus or something.)

Thanks!

Eric
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