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Date:      Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:13:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Todd Hansen <tshansen@oceana.nlanr.net>
To:        Woody Carey <carey@roguewave.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: bad block scans
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.94.990608151257.25651c-100000@oceana.nlanr.net>
In-Reply-To: <EB55BCC162CAD111BD0A00A0C9979E3201944D3F@cvo1.cvo.roguewave.com>

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agreed. but it only seems to happen when we are accessing the disks and we
are using well-known adaptec scsi cards. Anyway, it is one of our
suspicions that we would like to get out of the way.
	-todd

On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Woody Carey wrote:

> Someone please correct me if I am way off base here, but this sounds
> like
> flaky hardware, not necessarily the disk itself.  
> 
> Why would bad disk blocks cause a crash?
> 
> > 
> > is there anyway to scan a disk for new bad blocks without 
> > destroying the
> > data already on the disk? We are looking into this because we 
> > are getting
> > a problem where our server will randomly just die and reboot 
> > while doing
> > some disk work but it doesn't put any errors on the screen or in the
> > kernel logs. :(
> > Thanks.
> > Todd Hansen
> > NLANR
> 



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