SCSI Hard drive "MEDIUM ERROR"

[Ryan J. Cavicchioni]

Would the excesive FTP load cause this? I was downloading mp3's over LAN 
so I was getting 7 mbit speed. Would this cause the disks to do this?

Dan Nelson wrote:

>In the last episode (Nov 22), Ryan J. Cavicchioni said:
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>>What would this mean? I get it during heavy FTP transfers on a drive
>>that is 75% full.
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>>(da1:ahc0:0:8:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:381b12 csi:ff,ff,ff,ff asc:11,1
>>(da1:ahc0:0:8:0): Read retries exhausted actual retry count: 104
>>(da1:ahc0:0:8:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data)
>>(da1:ahc0:0:8:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 0 38 1a a0 0 0 80 0
>>(da1:ahc0:0:8:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
>>(da1:ahc0:0:8:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
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>A medium error is a physical media error.  The drive tried reading a
>sector 104 times and couldn't recover the data.  If you have AWRE
>enabled, writing to that disk block should cause the drive to mark it
>bad and use a spare sector.  "camcontrol modepage da1 -m 1 -e -P 3"
>will let you turn it on.  Enabling ARRE is a good idea too (if the
>drive detects a bad sector but recovered it, it will reallocate the
>block).
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