Invisible wrote:
> OK, what is the purpose of an error message?
> 
> You *might* be tempted to say that it's meant to tell you that an error
> has occurred. But actually, it's more than that. It's supposed to tell
> you *what* error occurred! (Usually the fact that _something_ went wrong
> is damn obvious.)

My favourite is still the most classical Windows error message, which
says "Unexpected error".

> Take the following error message, for example:
> 
> PERC 4/SC Controller 0, Array Disk 0:1 Sense Key = 3, Sense Code = 11,
> Sense Qualifier = 0. If this disk is part of a non-redundant virtual
> disk, the data for this block cannot be recovered. The disk will require
> replacement and data restore. If this disk is part of a redundant
> virtual disk, the data in this block will be reallocated.
> 
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> 
> As you can see, this is a pretty useless error message. It basically

Actually, it's a perfect error message. It says that disk 0:1 is broken
and needs to be replaced. It also tells as misc information that if you
weren't running RAID, it's bye-bye -time.

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