Intermittent failure of CDC Wren-IV

[Russ Poffenberger]

In article <1881 at brazos.Rice.edu> nepjt!henkel at ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Chuck Henkel) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 149, message 6 of 10
>
>Context: Sun 386i 150XP w/ 327 MB CDC Wren IV
>
>Problem: After the Sun has been up for a while (~2 days) I begin to get
>messages like the following appearing on the console:

  ...error messages deleted

>If I power down the system for an hour or so, it will reboot fine and no
>problems occur for another 2 days or so.

Might be a thermal H/W problem.

>Incidentally, according to format the defect list is empty for this drive.
>Is that reasonable?

I don't think I have EVER run across a drive that didn't at least have
some defects in it. Sounds fishy to me. My CDC wren IV has 82 defects.

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