Thanks guys... I have forwarded the comments from Scott to the Dell and hope for the best....
Thank you again..... VJ On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The sense data in the screen shot boils down to an ASC/ASCQ pair of > 0x35/0x05. Looking this up in the ASC table found at t10.org gives > the following: > > 35h/05h ENCLOSURE SERVICES CHECKSUM ERROR > > What this basically means is that the disk enclosure that you're using > has some sort of an unknown defect or failure. It has nothing to do with > the OS. Dell needs to send you a new enclosure, plain and simple. > > Scott > > > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:16:58PM +0100, VeeJay wrote: >> >>> I have asked the system manufacturers (Dell) but they don't provide >>> support >>> for FreeBSD based systems [?] >>> Thats why I have only hope here with FreeBSD List... >>> >> >> I've CC'd Scott Long, who is the author of the mfi(4) driver. He should >> be able to explain what the error messages mean. >> >> Scott, check out the URL below. >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:29:11PM +0100, VeeJay wrote: >>>> >>>>> If it looks healthy, why there are these errors on the screen? Is it >>>>> controller problem or disk? >>>>> >>>> SCSI normally reports 3 things when it encounters an error (particularly >>>> disk errors): Sense Key (SK), Additional Sense Code (ASC), and >>>> Additional Sense Code Qualifier (ASCQ). >>>> >>>> What appears in the below screenshot is a large amount of sense data, >>>> but I can't make heads or tails out of it, because it's written in a >>>> driver-centric manner ("Encl PD" means nothing to me). I can read part >>>> of the CDB data, but it doesn't tell me much. Scott Long might know. >>>> >>>> http://digitalfreaks.org/~lavalamp/20081023_server3_screen_dump.png >>>> >>>> You should try asking the system manufacturer if they know what any >>>> of the data means. >>>> >>> >> > -- Thanks! BR / vj _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"