Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 13:15:43 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/4686 Message-ID: <19971005131543.QG59146@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <m0xHcIt-000twhC@nemesis.lonestar.org>; from Frank Durda IV on Oct 4, 1997 17:04:00 -0600 References: <m0xHcIt-000twhC@nemesis.lonestar.org>
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As Frank Durda IV wrote: > I must say that the current error message the driver emits certainly implies > that reassignment is being performed by *somebody*. Since not all drives do > this automatically, I assumed the driver was always doing the work, using > the explicit reassign commands that are available. My apologies. > > Perhaps the kernel error message should be changed to *suggest* that a > block reassignment should be done. The error messages are the official ASC/ASCQ messages as obtained from the SCSI-2 standard. So it's more likely that the drive is indeed telling you that it has remapped a bad block (since ARRE is enabled, for example). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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