wilko@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (W.C. Bulte) (04/22/91)
The Seagate St157N-1 (48Mb, 3.5", SCSI) harddrive of a friend of mine has chosen to display blinking error codes (using the activity LED). We would like to know what they mean. Normally this drive performs a couple of [seeks on startup, but now it either displays 3 or 6 blinks on the LED. The drive keeps spinning. Any info on this error code is most welcome _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte Domain: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) uucp : [mcsun,hp4nl]!philapd!wilko * Philips Information Systems Nederland phone: +31 55-432372 fax: +31 55-432103 "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'" Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back ________________________________________________________________________________
ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) (04/23/91)
In article <1283@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl> wilko@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (W.C. Bulte) writes: >The Seagate St157N-1 (48Mb, 3.5", SCSI) harddrive of a friend of mine has >chosen to display blinking error codes (using the activity LED). We would >like to know what they mean. Normally this drive performs a couple of [seeks >on startup, but now it either displays 3 or 6 blinks on the LED. The drive >keeps spinning. > >Any info on this error code is most welcome I don't think it's necessarily an error code, but there does seem to be something wrong with the drive, at least from the information you give us. Problems with the drives are usually communicated to the user via sense codes. I don't have any experience with drivers other than ICD's, but it will usually display a sense code in the upper right hand corner of the screen if there is anything wrong. Can you access the drive at all? If so, I'd recommend backing it up if you haven't done so already. I'd also recommend calling Seagate and ask them, if no one here has an answer. Good luck! -- Ed Krimen ............................................... ||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico ||| INTERNET: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu FREENET: al661 / | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261 FIDONET: 1:119/4.0
cliff@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Clifford Stein) (04/23/91)
In article <1991Apr22.184054.20179@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes: > [...stuff deleted...] >Problems with the drives are usually communicated to the user via sense codes. >I don't have any experience with drivers other than ICD's, but it will >usually display a sense code in the upper right hand corner of the screen >if there is anything wrong. > >-- > Ed Krimen ............................................... I get sense codes every once in a blue moon, usually right after I tell my friends I never have problems with my HD. I'm using a Seagate 157N, I think. It's a 48.8 meg mechanism with ICD host adaptor and software. What are sense $17 and $15 errors. I think those are the only two I've had. Can I get a listing of sense errors? Who would I write to, ICD, Seagate, or the babooze who I bought the HD from and might have neglected to give me the info? -Cliff -- cliff@jarthur.claremont.edu | "Ted Striker? Never heard of him. Wait! cliff@jarthur.uucp | That's not exactly true. We were like ...uunet!jarthur!cliff | brothers." cstein@hmcvax.bitnet | --Buck Murdoch
ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) (04/23/91)
In article <11853@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> cliff@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Clifford Stein) writes: >In article <1991Apr22.184054.20179@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes: >> > > [...stuff deleted...] > >>Problems with the drives are usually communicated to the user via sense codes. >>I don't have any experience with drivers other than ICD's, but it will >>usually display a sense code in the upper right hand corner of the screen >>if there is anything wrong. >> > >I get sense codes every once in a blue moon, usually right after I tell my >friends I never have problems with my HD. I'm using a Seagate 157N, I think. >It's a 48.8 meg mechanism with ICD host adaptor and software. What are >sense $17 and $15 errors. I think those are the only two I've had. Can I >get a listing of sense errors? Who would I write to, ICD, Seagate, or the >babooze who I bought the HD from and might have neglected to give me the >info? I don't know what those sense codes are, and unfortunately I don't have a listing. I called ICD to find out what they were, since I thought they were coming from the host adapter. The tech I talked to looked in a manual to find out what the error was. I would think that Seagate would send you a listing, with or without payment I'm not sure. -- Ed Krimen ............................................... ||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico ||| INTERNET: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu FREENET: al661 / | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261 FIDONET: 1:119/4.0
dtb@adpplz.UUCP (Tom Beach) (04/24/91)
> I get sense codes every once in a blue moon, usually right after I tell my > friends I never have problems with my HD. I'm using a Seagate 157N, I think. > It's a 48.8 meg mechanism with ICD host adaptor and software. What are > sense $17 and $15 errors. I think those are the only two I've had. Can I > get a listing of sense errors? Who would I write to, ICD, Seagate, or the > babooze who I bought the HD from and might have neglected to give me the > info? SCSI ERROR CODES: 01 No index/Adress mark found 02 No seek complete 03 Write Fault 04 Drive not ready 08 Logical Unit Communication failure 09 Track following error 10 ID CRC or ECC error 11 Unrecovered read error 12 No address mark in ID field 14 No record found 15 Seek positioning error 17 Read error recovered with retrys 18 Read error recovered with ECC 19 Default List error 1A Parameter overrun 1C Primary defect list not found 1D Compare Error These were taken from a Seagate manual for a drive different from yours. Most of them are defined by the SCSI spec so should be standard for all drives which support them. All drives do not support all error codes. Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Tom Beach : Sr Project Engineer : Mass Storage Technology | | phone : (503) 294-1541 | | email : uunet : dtb@adpplz.uucp | | ADP Dealer Services, ADP Plaza, 2525 S.W. 1st Ave, Portland OR, 97201 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------
boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) (04/24/91)
In article <1991Apr22.184054.20179@ecst.csuchico.edu>, ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes: >In article <1283@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl> wilko@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (W.C. Bulte) writes: >>The Seagate St157N-1 (48Mb, 3.5", SCSI) harddrive of a friend of mine has >>chosen to display blinking error codes (using the activity LED). We would >>like to know what they mean. Normally this drive performs a couple of [seeks >>on startup, but now it either displays 3 or 6 blinks on the LED. The drive >>keeps spinning. >> >>Any info on this error code is most welcome > >I don't think it's necessarily an error code, but there does seem to be >something wrong with the drive, at least from the information you give us. >Problems with the drives are usually communicated to the user via sense codes. >I don't have any experience with drivers other than ICD's, but it will >usually display a sense code in the upper right hand corner of the screen >if there is anything wrong. > Just FYI, the ICD host adaptor is the only one for the ST that communicates the device sense codes to the user. This is quite nice. As for the error codes via LEDs, it would perhaps be simplest to call Seagate (you can call 1-800-555-1212 and get their 1-800 number). I have done this in the past, and they have responded with a Xerox of whatever info I needed. Just ask them for a manual for the device. -- ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Mickey R. Boyd | "Kirk to Enterprise. All clear FSU Computer Science | down here. Beam down Technical Support Group | yeoman Rand and a six-pack . ." email: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu | ---------------------------------+-------------------------------------
boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) (04/24/91)
In article <11853@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, cliff@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Clifford Stein) writes: > >I get sense codes every once in a blue moon, usually right after I tell my >friends I never have problems with my HD. I'm using a Seagate 157N, I think. >It's a 48.8 meg mechanism with ICD host adaptor and software. What are >sense $17 and $15 errors. I think those are the only two I've had. Can I >get a listing of sense errors? Who would I write to, ICD, Seagate, or the >babooze who I bought the HD from and might have neglected to give me the >info? > $15 - seek positioning error $17 - Recovered read data with controller/drive READ retries I occasionally get a $17 (usually when my dog jumps onto the desk :-). A $15 would worry me. These are quoted from the ICD manual, which should be in the possession of said babooze. This is an ICD feature, and has nothing to do with the device. -- ---------------------------------+------------------------------------- Mickey R. Boyd | "Kirk to Enterprise. All clear FSU Computer Science | down here. Beam down Technical Support Group | yeoman Rand and a six-pack . ." email: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu | ---------------------------------+-------------------------------------
wilko@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (W.C. Bulte) (04/25/91)
In article <1991Apr24.082559.28567@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu writes: >In article <1991Apr22.184054.20179@ecst.csuchico.edu>, ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes: >>In article <1283@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl> wilko@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (W.C. Bulte) writes: >>>The Seagate St157N-1 (48Mb, 3.5", SCSI) harddrive of a friend of mine has >>>chosen to display blinking error codes (using the activity LED). We would [lots deleted] For us, being non-US, it would be most helpful if anyone could provide us with the fax# of Seagate support. This is probably more effective than an across-the-world voice call. Thanks _ __________________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte Domain: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) uucp : [mcsun,hp4nl]!philapd!wilko * Philips Information Systems Nederland phone: +31 55-432372 fax: +31 55-432103 "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'" Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back ________________________________________________________________________________
csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod) (04/25/91)
boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) writes: >>usually display a sense code in the upper right hand corner of the screen >the device sense codes to the user. This is quite nice. As for the >error codes via LEDs, it would perhaps be simplest to call Seagate (you can This is plain wrong. Just about every host adaptor communicates the sense codes to the ST. The ICD software, however, is the only one that displays the sense codes on the screen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Claus Brod, Am Felsenkeller 2, Things. Take. Time. D-8772 Marktheidenfeld, West Germany (Piet Hein) csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Claus Brod@wue.maus.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------
chap@art-sy.detroit.mi.us (j chapman flack) (04/27/91)
>In article <1283@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl> wilko@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (W.C. Bulte) writes: >>The Seagate St157N-1 (48Mb, 3.5", SCSI) harddrive of a friend of mine has >>chosen to display blinking error codes (using the activity LED). We would >>like to know what they mean. Normally this drive performs a couple of [seeks >>on startup, but now it either displays 3 or 6 blinks on the LED. The drive >>keeps spinning. According to the ST{251,277,296}N Product Manual (which *might* be similar to the ST157N as far as blink codes): One blink: Microprocessor/Internal Memory Test failure Two blinks: Microprocessor ROM checksum Three blinks: Controller chip failed to initialize Four blinks: Controller program RAM test Five blinks: Data buffer RAM test Six blinks: Drive is unable to reach and maintain proper spindle speed Eight blinks: The controller is unable to read its own control microcode from the drive. Nine blinks: The control microcode can be read but is corrupted. These conditions all have corresponding sense codes. -- Chap Flack Their tanks will rust. Our songs will last. chap@art-sy.detroit.mi.us -Mikos Theodorakis Nothing I say represents Appropriate Roles for Technology unless I say it does.