Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:53:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Michael Butler <imb@asstdc.com.au> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dead disk Message-ID: <19970819095344.28357@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199708182351.JAA12452@sarah.asstdc.com.au>; from Michael Butler on Mon, Aug 18, 1997 at 05:51:13PM -0600 References: <199708182351.JAA12452@sarah.asstdc.com.au>
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On Mon, Aug 18, 1997 at 05:51:13PM -0600, Michael Butler wrote: >>> Aug 18 04:34:59 scorn /kernel: sd3(ahc0:3:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:0x50033 >>> csi:1,79,7,3b asc:16,0 Data synchronization mark error >>> field replaceable unit: 15 > >>> So is all hope lost for this disk? > >> Did you turn on automatic error recovery? It's on mode page 1 (see >> scsi(8)). > > Unfortunately, I have a drive at home that desparately needs reformatting .. > worse, the machine is in Australia and I'm in Canada for the short and medium > term .. <sigh> .. can anyone tell me what commands I can throw at scsi(8) to do > this? If you just want to format the disk, scsiformat(8) will do that. Somebody posted the commands yesterday to turn on error recovery. Greg
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