From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Mar 13 13:58:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA23270 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:58:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA23265 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:58:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA13446; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 22:56:46 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA00441; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 22:46:39 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970313224639.RG19743@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 22:46:39 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk (David Alan Gilbert) Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Medium errors References: <9703131538.AA26393@amu7.cs.man.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9703131538.AA26393@amu7.cs.man.ac.uk>; from David Alan Gilbert on Mar 13, 1997 15:38:54 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David Alan Gilbert wrote: > 1) Can someone explain to me what the Sun is doing with defect > lists? How do I look at the 'manufacturers defect list' on > FreeBSD - and what does it affect? There's a script now, in src/tools/tools/scsi-defects/scsi-defects.pl, courtesy Peter Dufault. Be warned, it hung my Fujitsu drive at work, but seems to run well on a variety of drives. > 2) The disklabel stuff STILL doesn't work. I tried zero'ing the disc > first; but running disklabel gives me various IOCTL errors. Define `various'. Explain exactly what you did. Using or not using -r makes a great difference on a pristine disk. Using your own idea of a device node, too (simply use `sd0' or such). This is what is supposed to work: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0 count=15 disklabel -Brw sd0 auto -- 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. ;-)