From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Oct 5 04:21:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA13579 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 04:21:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id EAA13570 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 04:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA01984; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 13:21:19 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id NAA29766; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 13:15:43 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971005131543.QG59146@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 13:15:43 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/4686 References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Frank Durda IV on Oct 4, 1997 17:04:00 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Frank Durda IV wrote: > I must say that the current error message the driver emits certainly implies > that reassignment is being performed by *somebody*. Since not all drives do > this automatically, I assumed the driver was always doing the work, using > the explicit reassign commands that are available. My apologies. > > Perhaps the kernel error message should be changed to *suggest* that a > block reassignment should be done. The error messages are the official ASC/ASCQ messages as obtained from the SCSI-2 standard. So it's more likely that the drive is indeed telling you that it has remapped a bad block (since ARRE is enabled, for example). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)