Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 15:38:54 GMT From: David Alan Gilbert <gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk> To: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Medium errors Message-ID: <9703131538.AA26393@amu7.cs.man.ac.uk>
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Hi, Well I flipped AWRE etc on - Previously where dd'ing reading the disc would give log messages followed by an I/O error in the DD, now it managed to kill the machine and cause it to reboot itself. Great. The drive surface checked on a Sun; so I scsiformat'd it back on the PC and it seems OK. However: 1) Can someone explain to me what the Sun is doing with defect lists? How do I look at the 'manufacturers defect list' on FreeBSD - and what does it affect? 2) The disklabel stuff STILL doesn't work. I tried zero'ing the disc first; but running disklabel gives me various IOCTL errors. I tried using the /stand/sysinstall program and it happily fdisk'd but then segfaulted when it tried to label it. In the end I dd'd the partition and disklabel information from another (different sized disc) and then edited it - once a sensible partition/disklabel is on its happy. I think it must be a kernel related thing because the version on the boot disc works OK. Dave
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