Imminent disk failure ? or something else

Hi there

I have been recieving these messages reguarly from one of our boxes and wanted to know if this meant the disk was on its way out or something? I think what i really want know is what does this message actually tell you other than there has been a kern.warning on this particular disk ....how would i progress/investigate this ?message below...

3 in 3:10:39: Sep 21 02:19:19 my.machine.com scsi: [ID 107833 kern.warning] WARNING: /pci@1f,700000/scsi@2/sd@0,0 (sd1):

any help on this would be greatly appreciated

Gary

[555 byte] By [hcclnoodles] at [2007-11-26 10:17:52]
# 1

For Solaris 8 and newer, you could glance through the output for

# iostat -En

The IOSTAT man page describes what information it can provide.

A safe disk test would be to bring the system down to single-user mode,

then run FORMAT --> ANALYZE --> READ on the questionable disk.

That is a non-destructive test.

It may take some time, depending on the size of the drive.

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