albani@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Lanfranco Albani) (05/07/91)
Hi, netpeople!
We are having BIG trouble with a couple of Maxtor Panther P1-17S
(1.7 Gb SCSI disks).
They won't run on HP 9000/400t (with HP-UX 7.03) nor on
Sun SLC (with SunOs 4.1).
On the HP they let us make the filesystem (with newfs(1m)), but when
we run fsck(1m), the machine reports random CANNOT READ BLOCK #x
(where x varies from 8 to 1309000), and as we do a heavy disk to
disk copy (using find + cpio), after a few minutes the machine crashes.
On the Sun, as we issue newfs, the machine reports the usual bunch
of superblock dupes, and after a couple of minutes reports a lot of
errors, like:
"sd0: SCSI transport failed: reason 'reset': retrying command" and
"esp0: 3.0 data transfer failure
stat 0x11<XZERO,IO> INTR=0x10<BUS>
last state='UNKNOWN' last cmd='dma trans_info"
Obviusly we have tried all known (to us...) solutions:
swap cable, exchange parity jumper, exchange terminator,
exchange SCSI Id. number.
BTW, on the HP trying a mediainit(1) results in an immediate crash.
Any help will be VERY appreciated...
Bye, Lanfranco
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