From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Oct 26 19:48:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA29422 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 19:48:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA29394; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 19:47:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de (root@zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.63.20]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id TAA20913 ; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 19:47:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [130.83.63.13] (apfel.zit.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.63.13]) by zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA06424; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 03:45:40 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: petzi@mail.zit.th-darmstadt.de Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 03:45:26 +0100 To: hardware@freebsd.org, scsi@freebsd.org From: Michael Beckmann Subject: SCSI harddisk trouble: MEDIUM ERROR Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, since a couple days I'm getting messages from my harddisk like Oct 27 03:26:58 zit1 /kernel: , retries:2 Oct 27 03:26:58 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:3b13fe asc:11,b Oct 27 03:26:58 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Unrecovered read error - recommend reassignment sks:80,32 Oct 27 03:26:58 zit1 /kernel: , retries:1 Oct 27 03:26:58 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:3b13fe asc:11,b Oct 27 03:26:58 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Unrecovered read error - recommend reassignment sks:80,32 Oct 27 03:26:58 zit1 /kernel: , FAILURE Oct 27 03:26:58 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:3b13fe asc:11,b Oct 27 03:26:58 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Unrecovered read error - recommend reassignment sks:80,32 Oct 27 03:26:58 zit1 /kernel: , retries:4 Oct 27 03:26:58 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:3b13fe asc:11,b Oct 27 03:26:59 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Unrecovered read error - recommend reassignment sks:80,32 Oct 27 03:26:59 zit1 /kernel: , retries:3 Oct 27 03:26:59 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:3b13fe asc:11,b Oct 27 03:26:59 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Unrecovered read error - recommend reassignment sks:80,32 Oct 27 03:26:59 zit1 /kernel: , retries:2 Oct 27 03:26:59 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:3b13fe asc:11,b Oct 27 03:26:59 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Unrecovered read error - recommend reassignment sks:80,32 Oct 27 03:26:59 zit1 /kernel: , retries:1 Oct 27 03:26:59 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:3b13fe asc:11,b Oct 27 03:26:59 zit1 /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Unrecovered read error - recommend reassignment sks:80,32 Oct 27 03:27:00 zit1 /kernel: , FAILURE I took the disk out of the system, and checked its configuration. AWRE and ARRE were set. I thought the disk was supposed to automatically reassign bad blocks in this configuration ? This seems not to work, the grown defect list had no entry. I reassigned three blocks manually, which were reported as being unreadable by fsck. But now I'm getting these errors again. fsck gave me a decimal block number for the bad block, how can I tell which block is bad here ? Is there a way to run a disk check under FreeBSD, which finds (and reassigns) bad blocks ? Is there a good way to reassign blocks automatically, and avoid the problems that follow these medium errors ? BTW. This disk has been running over 1 year, 24h a day now. Cheers, Michael