Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:48:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: ali@XCF.Berkeley.EDU Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad blocks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970911204532.16497C-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19970911204727.26628.qmail@xcf.berkeley.edu>
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On 11 Sep 1997 ali@XCF.Berkeley.EDU wrote: > Hi. > Some AMI diag program tells me i have bad blocks on my disk. > If I do "tar cvf /dev/null /usr" I will get a message from the > kernel saying "sd0(ahc0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:534195 csi:c,8f,3,76 asc:11,0 Unrecovered read error sks:80,80." > > Several times. Is the way to fix this to place the bad block(s) in a bad block > list somewhere? How do I do that? You should make sure that bad sector remapping is enabled for your drive. Run `scsi -f /dev/sd0 -m 0' to look at the current settings. The top two you want to make sure are set to 1. if not, run `scsi -f /dev/sd0 -m 3 -e' to edit the profile. Of course you have to be root. For more info, check out the FAQ or the mail archives. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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