From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 13:41:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA20212 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:41:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA20205 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:41:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by root.com (8.7.6/8.6.5) with SMTP id NAA06512; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:41:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610242041.NAA06512@root.com> X-Authentication-Warning: implode.root.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: Bill Fenner , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is my disk going bad? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:23:12 PDT." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:41:39 -0700 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. Uhh, gurp. Drives reserve spare tracks and blocks for use in reallocation. The space does not come from the filesystem free block pool. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project