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Date:      Sun, 17 Aug 1997 23:20:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Ian Kallen <ian@gamespot.com>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dead disk
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970817231802.6917E-100000@ns2.gamespot.com>
In-Reply-To: <19970818073229.DO12056@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, J Wunsch wrote:
> Did you turn on automatic error recovery?  It's on mode page 1 (see
> scsi(8)).
> 
> If you turn it on right now, you can't fix the old errors unless you
> overwrite the bad block (0x50033, block number from the beginning of
> the device).

Poking through the archives and the man page, I just don't find anything
informative leading towards a resolution.  Does this tell me anything I
can you to save this disk?

# scsi -f /dev/rsd3.ctl -m 1
AWRE (Auto Write Reallocation Enbld):  0 
ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld):  0 
TB (Transfer Block):  0 
RC (Read Continuous):  0 
EER (Enable Early Recovery):  0 
PER (Post Error):  0 
DTE (Disable Transfer on Error):  0 
DCR (Disable Correction):  0 
Read Retry Count:  16 
Correction Span:  22 
Head Offset Count:  0 
Data Strobe Offset Count:  0 
Write Retry Count:  16 
Recovery Time Limit:  0 

thanks
-Ian

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