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rainer@mathematik.uni-freiburg.de (Rainer Kleinrensing) writes:
|    dks1d4vol: Media error: Media format corrupted (asc=0x31, asq=0x0)
|    dks1d4vol: Media error: Seek position error (asc=0x15, asq=0x0), Block #4591
|    dks1d4vol: Media error: Write fault (asc=0x3, asq=0x0)
| 
| when fx wanted to write back the new partition layout. Reading from the drive
| was ok, so I rule out SCSI problems.
| 
| My question: After sending the drives back for repair, they now work. The 
| company claims they had written some wrong setup info to the disk so they
| couldn't be recognized by SGI machines. Could I have corrected this also
| using fx? (I tried to alter some of the drive parameters in the corresponding
| sub-menu, but modification always failed with the above messages).

This sounds like a voltage/power supply problem more than anything else.
I don't know anything that could be configured into the drive such that
a write comes back with a media error, but read does not.  Of course,
they firmware could be buggy, and they could have upgraded it, or the
drives could have been flaky.

| Btw, in label/show/all (name field in sgi-info) I read something like
| "PTI-scsi-toolbox". I understand that the company uses a PC to set up drives
| and never connected these two to a real SGI machine.

Shouldn't matter.
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