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Date:      Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:39:06 -0800
From:      "Ryan J. Cavicchioni" <ryan@confabulator.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SCSI Hard drive "MEDIUM ERROR"
Message-ID:  <41A2CCFA.4000408@confabulator.net>
In-Reply-To: <20041123030351.GA31803@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <41A2A7B2.4000601@confabulator.net> <20041123030351.GA31803@dan.emsphone.com>

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AWRE (Auto Write Reallocation Enbld):  1
ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld):  1
TB (Transfer Block):  0
RC (Read Continuous):  0
EER (Enable Early Recovery):  0
PER (Post Error):  0
DTE (Disable Transfer on Error):  0
Read Retry Count:  255
Write Retry Count:  255

It seems to be enabled. Is there anything else that I can do?

Dan Nelson wrote:

>In the last episode (Nov 22), Ryan J. Cavicchioni said:
>  
>
>>What would this mean? I get it during heavy FTP transfers on a drive
>>that is 75% full.
>>
>>(da1:ahc0:0:8:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:381b12 csi:ff,ff,ff,ff asc:11,1
>>(da1:ahc0:0:8:0): Read retries exhausted actual retry count: 104
>>(da1:ahc0:0:8:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data)
>>(da1:ahc0:0:8:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 0 38 1a a0 0 0 80 0
>>(da1:ahc0:0:8:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
>>(da1:ahc0:0:8:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
>>    
>>
>
>A medium error is a physical media error.  The drive tried reading a
>sector 104 times and couldn't recover the data.  If you have AWRE
>enabled, writing to that disk block should cause the drive to mark it
>bad and use a spare sector.  "camcontrol modepage da1 -m 1 -e -P 3"
>will let you turn it on.  Enabling ARRE is a good idea too (if the
>drive detects a bad sector but recovered it, it will reallocate the
>block).
>
>  
>



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