From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 16:11:00 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 DE72416A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:11:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8920343D2F for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:11:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@nbritton.org) Received: from [192.168.1.10] (12-223-129-46.client.insightbb.com[12.223.129.46]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP id <20041123161059i92002an27e>; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:11:00 +0000 Message-ID: <41A36111.2050100@nbritton.org> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:10:57 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041119) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson 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> <20041123155546.GF48882@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20041123155546.GF48882@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 16:11:01 -0000 Dan Nelson wrote: >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. > > > Is this the norm SCSI drives?... With IDE drives bad sector remapping is transparent, the drive does all that by itself, and if you start getting bad sectors it's because the drive ran out of spares