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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

9928.0. "Faulty Raw Device" by MSAM00::FOOSZEMUN () Fri May 23 1997 03:41

    Hi,
    
    	I just wonder how to determine a raw device (harddisk) is faulty. 
    I can disklabel to read the device partition table and when I checked
    the uerf I don't see any scsi error with event 199.  There is no faulty
    light on the harddisk.
    
    	The problem is the customer insisted that their application utilty
    from Informix shown some error messages.  The messsage is related to
    some internal error and fragmentation.  He insisted that this is a
    harddisk problem (base on his knowledge).  
    
    	How do I confirm?
    
    
    Thanks,
    SMF

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
9928.1		SSDEVO::ROLLOW	Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes.	`Fri May 23 1997 10:41`	3
	You use an independent program to read the device; dd(1) is a good choice. If it can read the partition/device, then the customer's problem is probably not a device error.