Hard disk I/O error

From: Benlu Jiang <jiang_at_csdeca.cs.missouri.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 00:10:31 -0600

We have bought a DEC RZ28-EP from Commonwealth Digital Inc.
I set the SCSI address as 3.
I tried to mv /usr/users system from a old disk to the new disk.
After installing the disk, I went through the following steps
at single user mode:

1. Label and create a file system on the new disk.
    # MAKEDEV rz3
    # disklabel -rw rz3 rz28
    # /etc/newfs /dev/rrz3c
2. Temporarily mount it to /mnt
    # mount /dev/rz3c /mnt
3. Use dump/restore across a pipe to move the data.
    # dump 0f - /usr/users | ( cd /mnt ; restore rf - )
4. Unmount the new /usr/users and take a full backup of it.
    # umount /mnt
    # dump -0u /dev/rrz3c
5. Edit /etc/fstab to reflect the new location of /usr/users
6. reboot system

It was ok at the beginning, I could log-in as an ordinary user.
After about half an hour, the system frozed.
I had to turn off the system and reboot it.

When the system was up, I checked uerf and /usr/adm/messages file, I got
the following error message:
Jan 10 18:54:09 csdeca vmunix: cam_logger: CAM_ERROR packet
Jan 10 18:54:09 csdeca vmunix: cam_logger: bus 0 target 3 lun 0
Jan 10 18:54:09 csdeca vmunix: cdisk_check_sense
Jan 10 18:54:09 csdeca vmunix: Hardware Error bad block number: -1526169352
Jan 10 18:54:09 csdeca vmunix: Hard Error Detected
Jan 10 18:54:09 csdeca vmunix: DEC RZ28
Jan 10 18:54:09 csdeca vmunix: Active CCB at time of error
Jan 10 18:54:09 csdeca vmunix: CCB request completed with an error
Jan 10 18:54:09 csdeca vmunix: Error, exception, or abnormal condition
Jan 10 18:54:09 csdeca vmunix: HARDWARE ERROR - Nonrecoverable hardware error

After a while, when I tried to run "ls -l ", I got a message of "I/O error".
I can't access my files.

After that, the disk even can't be mounted.

Any one has encountered this kind of problem before?
Do you think it is because of problems with the disk or
something wrong with my installation procedure?

Thank you in advance!

Benlu Jiang
Received on Wed Jan 11 1995 - 01:09:11 NZDT

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