From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 29 20:08:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA03676 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:08:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA03588 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:07:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA01353; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:07:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 20:07:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Edward Ajhar cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk error question In-Reply-To: <199801272131.OAA04327@husa.tuc.noao.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Edward Ajhar wrote: > > I recently got the following error message, and I don't know if this > failure indicates that the SCSI disk is broken because it failed to > reallocate a bad block or what. Is it possibly a kernel problem, or > can I be sure this is really a disk failure? Or, have I done > something stupid. Run `scsi -f /dev/rsd0 -m 1 -e -P 0' and check that the top two settings are 1. If they are, then your disk is full of bad blocks and should probably be replaced. If they aren't, run with the -P 3 option instead and change them to 1. See scsi(8) for details. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major