Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 16:27:35 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: ian@gamespot.com (Ian Kallen) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dead disk Message-ID: <199708180657.QAA11093@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970817231802.6917E-100000@ns2.gamespot.com> from Ian Kallen at "Aug 17, 97 11:20:12 pm"
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Ian Kallen stands accused of saying: > 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 The scsi(8) manpage has an example of editing this page to set these values to 1. Once you've done this, you will probably need to arrange to _write_ to the disk region that's broken in order to force the reallocation. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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