From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 24 14:13:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA16685 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:13:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA16664; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 14:13:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA00733; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:13:42 +0200 (MET DST) To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata), tbalfe@falcon.tioga.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Micropolis, again In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:59:08 PDT." <199607241959.MAA23187@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:13:41 +0200 Message-ID: <731.838242821@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Of course, if your drive really is on the way out, enabling these >> will only postpone the inevitable. I once used a Fujitsu 2624FA that >> developed bad sectors. Enabling AWRE and ARRE helped, but more and more >> bad sectors appeared. I finally gave up and drop-kicked the drive. Could we have a /etc/sysconfig option to enable AWRE and ARRE on all scsi-disks in the system ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.