From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 6 01:20:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA03214 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 01:20:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA03209 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 01:20:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA25251; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 01:11:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd025248; Thu Nov 6 09:11:49 1997 Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 01:10:05 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Carl.Makin@aipo.gov.au cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: intranet errors In-Reply-To: <4A256547.00286FE1.00@notes.aipo.gov.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Nov 1997 Carl.Makin@aipo.gov.au wrote: > > > > > > > We've been getting some errors from one of our FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE boxes. > It is a Pentium 200 with 32MB RAM and an Adaptec AHA-2940. sd1 is a Seagate > Barracuda 9gb. > > Here is the syslog; > > ------------- Cut Here -------------- > [CHOMP] > ---------------- Cut Here ------------------ > > My guess is that the drive had some errors which were successfully > recovered from. > > Is this drive going bad? It has 1 bad sector. that may not mean all that much. you should use the 'scsi' program to set the 'replace block on error' bits in the drive control pages.. from memory the command isL scsi -f /dev/rsd2 -e -m 1 -P 3 man 8 scsi for more info. > > Carl. > > >