Dying disk?

[Bill Moran]

twig les <twigles at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hey *, I can't quite figure out if this is a dire warning.  I
> hope not since I can't convince my hard drives to stop failing
> ... sigh.  The machine still works fine and has no data worth
> worrying about, but it'd be nice to know ...  From dmesg:
> 
> acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
> sensekey=ILLEGAL REQUEST error=0
> acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
> sensekey=ILLEGAL REQUEST error=0
> acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
> sensekey=ILLEGAL REQUEST error=0
> acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
> sensekey=ILLEGAL REQUEST error=0
> acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
> sensekey=ILLEGAL REQUEST error=0
> acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
> sensekey=ILLEGAL REQUEST error=0
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a

Looks like a CD-ROM is failing.  Do you have the master/slave
jumpers correct?

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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