[BUGS] SCSI hardware failure?

[Callum Gibson]

On 14Jan08 11:21, Tong Wang wrote:
}Copied 32 bytes of sense data offset 12: 0x70 0x0 0x1 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x18 
}0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x5d 0x2 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0xff 0xff 
}0xff 0xff 0xff 0xff 0x0 0x0
}(da0:ahd1:0:0:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 1 f5 4 3b 0 0 4 0
}(da0:ahd1:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
}(da0:ahd1:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
}(da0:ahd1:0:0:0): RECOVERED ERROR asc:5d,2
}(da0:ahd1:0:0:0): Reserved ASC/ASCQ pair
}(da0:ahd1:0:0:0): No Recovery Action Needed
}
}I've had this for quite a while and it's repeating, since it says "No 
}Recovery Action Needed", nothing much has been done. Until recently, I 

SCSI drives have their own bad sector management so you really do need
to do nothing. However if you are seeing this message frequently then
it's an indication your disk is dying and you will need to replace it
before it goes completely and has unrecoverable errors.

}found that AMANDA is not able to send daily check emails from amcheck, 
}amverify etc, so I checked the server again, using mail to trying to send 
}an email from the AMANDA account, and got the following error:
}
}mail: /tmp/mail.Rsi6mQUtTJ52: Permission denied
}
}more to it, upon finishing, amverify also has this permission denied error.
}I also noticed that i can't run finger on any account, same permission 
}denied error happens, even using root account.
}
}To sum it up, this server is having all sorts of strange behaviors which 
}I'm guessing are from the SCSI error, but I'm not sure what exactly is 
}going on with it. I've worked with FreeBSD for not too long, so some help 
}would be greatly greatly appreciated! :)

It's unlikely to be caused by your SCSI issue unless you had errors which
weren't recovered. I'm not sure that's even possible as the hardware should
cause some sort of more major error which the kernel will report, rather
than silently corrupting your data (such as file permissions, etc).

You'll need to provide some more info on the details of your installation
for other ideas. What release of FreeBSD? Are you using NIS? How long
has the machine been up? Has this all been working perfectly before and
for how long? What other changes have you made recently? etc. 

    C

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