Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 22:33:05 -0400 (EDT) From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scsi MEDIUM ERRORS? Message-ID: <m0wQ1y6-0000o9C@twwells.com>
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: > Note that these are unrecovered read errors. The SCSI spec doesn't : > permit the drive to fix these. Since this is a new drive, format : > it with scsiformat, verify that ARRE and AWRE are on in mode page 1, : > and then try again. It is disconcerting that you received the : > drive like this. : : If scsiformat doesn't work, as it didn't for me in a similar case, : try rewriting the whole drive, as in : : dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsdN bs=1b Thanks for the info, guys. I hadn't realized there was a formatting tool that ran under FreeBSD. Though...it sure as hell didn't format it in under ten seconds. :-) Oh well. I'll see if writing zeroes does the trick.... : after making sure ARRE and AWRE are on in mode page 1. That way : the drive can try to reassign blocks for write error. You both mentioned those bits....what are they? How are they manipulated? : I'd try to get the drive replaced or repaired, though. It's not : a Quantum Empire by any chance, is it? :-) A Quantum Fireball...and this *is* the replacement. :-| The first one appeared to have something wrong with seeking....
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