Re: SCSI error: hardware, software, or firmware?

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 06:53:43 +0200 (MEST)


Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote:
> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:52:04 -0500
> From: m* <mark@mail.novare.net>
>
> i was wondering if anyone had seen this error when employing the BusLogic
> BT-958 PCI SCSI using driver version 2.0.14, the disk is an IBM Ultra Star
> 18XP ( non-SCA ), and the kernel is 2.0.35.
>
> the error text is:
>
> 17:37:08 master kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 6 lun 0 return code = 28000002
> 17:37:08 master kernel: extra data not valid Current error sd08:10: sense key Hardware Error
> 17:37:08 master kernel: Additional sense indicates Internal target failure
> 17:37:08 master kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 2, absolute sector 2
>
> The Hardware Error / Internal Target Failure is a report from the disk drive
> itself, so I would think this has to be an issue with the drive, not the host
> adapter. I suggest you inquire of IBM what this might mean.

I've recently seen an IBM disk(*) that reported this error on a
physical error on the disk. This error can be retried: In my case
the read succeeded after a few retries.

Roger.

(*) It physically looks like an old Western Digital disk to me.

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