From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Mar 13 07:16:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA01983 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 07:16:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from shadows.aeon.net (bsdscsi@shadows.aeon.net [194.100.41.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA01976 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 07:16:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bsdscsi@localhost) by shadows.aeon.net (8.8.5/8.8.3) id RAA18662; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:12:30 +0200 (EET) From: mika ruohotie Message-Id: <199703131512.RAA18662@shadows.aeon.net> Subject: Re: Medium error messages - how to read In-Reply-To: <19970310095557.GH50073@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Mar 10, 97 09:55:57 am" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:12:30 +0200 (EET) Cc: gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk, scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > First of all what should I do - is there anyway I can see if the drive > > has automatic block remapping on? > Yes, it's on mode page 1. Run > scsi -f /dev/rsd1.ctl -m 1 -e > ...and set AWRE and AWWE to 1. Anyway, since it's an unrecovered > error, you still need to write the block once in order to force a > remap. hmm... since on my fujitsu drives these were both set to 0, does it mean that whatever problems i had were coz of it and not coz of ahc, coz suddenly it sounds like that to me? *blush* it it's true, once again it was proved that getting cheapo hardware is not good trade off... not that _i_ were recommending purchasing those drives... i set them to 1, btw. thanx, let's see what happens now. =) ofcourse i should learn to doubt the hw first, freebsd second. i should know, i should know, i should know. i'll install two more freebsd servers coz of this. *sulk* mickey