From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 15:55:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B5616A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:55:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBE2643D41 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:55:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id iANFtkcM078742; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:55:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:55:46 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Nikolas Britton Message-ID: <20041123155546.GF48882@dan.emsphone.com> References: <41A2A7B2.4000601@confabulator.net> <20041123030351.GA31803@dan.emsphone.com> <41A2CCFA.4000408@confabulator.net> <20041123034553.GB48882@dan.emsphone.com> <6.2.0.14.2.20041123062022.00acec58@localhost> <41A35DBF.1010208@confabulator.net> <41A3537D.8090403@nbritton.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41A3537D.8090403@nbritton.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: "Ryan J. Cavicchioni" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI Hard drive "MEDIUM ERROR" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:55:48 -0000 In the last episode (Nov 23), Nikolas Britton said: > Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: > >This is what produced the output: > > > >"camcontrol modepage da1 -m 1 -e -P 3" > > > > I ended up using the utility on my SCSI controller to remap the bad > > blocks. For the moment it is working fine. > > I'd start looking for a replacement drive if I where you. That's not strictly necessary if it's just one bad block. SCSI drives have a lot of spare sectors for bad-block remapping. You can use the "camcontrol defects" command to list the blocks that were marked as bad during the manufacturing process, plus the ones the drive has marked bad itself during normal use. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com