Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 08:50:23 -0500 (EST) From: william pechter ILEX <pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com (FreeBSD-hackers) Subject: Re: Bad sectors on SCSI drive! Message-ID: <199501041350.FAA06195@wcarchive.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <199501041219.NAA03631@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 4, 95 01:19:58 pm
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> > As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > | > | > Allright, so what can be done? How can I map out bad sectors on a scsi > | > drive? Do I have to newfs the drive? > | > | Return it to the manufacturer. A good SCSI drive shouldn't develop faults > | like this, and when it does, it's time to shoot it. > > If you don't like this, hook it up to a SCSI adapter with PC BIOS > enabled, start the BIOS diag (usually g c800:6 or so from a debugger), > and try to low-level format it. Some people say this causes bad > sectors to be re-mapped. > Adaptec has a scsi format utility that will do the same thing with the 154x controllers and probably the other adaptec ones. Check their ftp site. Bill ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter |Systems Administrator | Ilex Systems |170 Patterson Ave | Shrewsbury, New Jersey 07702 908-532-2943 |pechter@sesd.ilex.com | pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil
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