megamonitor sensekey=3 messages

[Ronny Adsetts]

David A. Titzer said at 11/04/2005 13:33:
> I need to know exactly what this error means:
>
> [04/10/2005 (09:22:45)]:
> 	Adapter 1 Channel 1 Target 0: Sense Data: errCode=0x70  valBit=1
> segMent=0x00  SenseKey=3  ILI=0  EOM=0  FMRK=0  Address=0x0769AF3C
> ASL=0x18  cmdSpec=0x0000  ASC=0x11  ASCQ=0x02 FRUC Code + Sense Key
> Specific=0x80008000
>
> I've looked using "dellmgr" and there are apparently no "hard" errors on
> the disks, but a couple of drives are throwing these errors out. We're
> running RAID5 on this set of disks, BTW. Is this drive just aging, or is
> this a firmware issue? If the latter--and if anybody knows--why would I
> not get them on all drives?

As far as decoding the error, see the ASC/ASCQ pair and use this page:

http://www.t10.org/lists/asc-num.htm

11/02 == ERROR TOO LONG TO CORRECT

Some sort of read error. If you get them regularly for that disk, it's usually
an indication of the device beginning to die.

Ronny
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