From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 13:24:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA19177 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:24:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA19172 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:24:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA14319; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:23:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:23:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Bill Fenner cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is my disk going bad? In-Reply-To: <96Oct24.115938pdt.177480@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Bill Fenner wrote: > I just noticed that I've been getting these for a while: > > sd1(ncr0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:119a05 csi:6,a8,3,41 asc:11,43 field replaceable unit: 15 sks:80,40 > > sd1 is a Quantum 1080S. I don't have the probe messages since the > medium error messages have scrolled them away. > > I just yesterday turned on remapping: > > % scsi -f /dev/rsd1 -m 1 > AWRE (Auto Write Reallocation Enbld): 1 > ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld): 1 > > but it's not remapping, it's still returning errors. > > Is this the disk going so bad that it can't reallocate to good blocks? How full is it? Once you've filled the disk then it can't reallocate those bad sectors anywhere else. > > Thanks, > Bill > Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major