Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 13:42:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Peter Childs <pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help! /bin/csh is gone! Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961005134124.29236B-100000@buffnet7.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <199610051233.WAA16911@al.imforei.apana.org.au>
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I dont know that I would want an auto-remap. After manually running the routine to remap, I had to fsck to uncorrupt thing - a scsi remap just effectively replaces a sector with data on it that went bad, with a sector of wide open nothing. On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Peter Childs wrote: > > > > Some scsi drives come with badsector remapping turned off for some > > > stupid reason... check the freebsd faq about using the > > > 'scsi' > > > command to enable it for this drive.. that should fix your problem. > > > > I use adaptec controllers precisely because they have routine easily > > gotten to in the bios that will 'verify' a drive and perform the remap > > etc. > > Hmm.. fair enuff... anyway.. we are probabaly on different wave > lengths but the FAQ (2.16) states... > > --quote-- > > To enable this, you'll need to edit the first device page mode, > which can be done on FreeBSD by giving the > command (as root) > > scsi -f /dev/rsd0c -m 1 -e -P 3 > > and changing the values of AWRE and ARRE from 0 to 1:- > > AWRE (Auto Write Reallocation Enbld): 1 > ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld): 1 > > --endquote-- > > I was suprised to fine neary every scsi drive on the machines > i look after had these off :( When one of my news disks on > a ccd went down it caused me a lot of pain before i found this > option and turned it on. > > Regards, > Peter > > -- > Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds > Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key > Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object! >
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