From: Chuck Homic <chuck@vvisions.com>
Hey guys... from my syslog:
May 22 17:05:28 biznatch kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout <etc> Can anyone who knows more about SCSI tell me what can cause a command timeout, etc...
That looks a lot like the messages I got from a drive that was about to die. In my case, timeouts got more and more frequent, then the drive started making rattling-grinding sounds and then quit working at all. At the time I was not happy to lose the drive, but in retrospect I appreciate the warning. Because it took a few days to totally die, I was able to copy the essential data from it to a new place. I strongly suggest that you not turn on this machine except to do back ups. Save your files!
Do I need a terminator or something?
Could be. Bad termination will make a SCSI device act flakey.
So, the error resolves itself in 7 seconds, and no data is lost,
...yet...
and a 4GB Western Digital Enterprise that someone told me was dead. Heh... okay that sounds pretty bad.
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