Non-Medium disk errors in STM

[Dane Van Steenwyk]

I have some A7289A 146GB drives and when I run the information tool on them they show Non-Medium errors(ranging between 50 and 90,000). The drives test good in STM and using the "dd" command. I guess I was just wondering what the non-medium errors mean and if the drives are GOOD or BAD?? Any input would be much appreciated.

[Andrew Merritt_2 · Accepted solution]

Non-medium errors are typically seek related, and are recoverable and don't corrupt any data. They may cause performance problems if severe enough, but in that case they should trip SMART errors (which you should see reported by the EMS HW monitor on HP-UX).

SCSI I/O errors are not counted as non-medium errors.

Andrew

[Dane Van Steenwyk]

Just what I was looking for. Sorry it took so long to get back to ya. Thanks a bunch!!

[Dane Van Steenwyk]

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