From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Mar 1 13:15:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03563 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 13:15:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03545; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 13:15:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id WAA22638; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 22:00:10 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id VAA14561; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:43:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19980301214334.35736@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:43:34 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: Wilko Bulte , Karl Denninger Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: timeout when formatting 9GB Barracuda, scsi errors is missing time References: <19980301125933.11291@klemm.gtn.com> <199803011315.OAA04743@yedi.iaf.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199803011315.OAA04743@yedi.iaf.nl>; from Wilko Bulte on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 02:15:28PM +0100 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 02:15:28PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > It think you need to change: > > # formatting may take a huge amount of time, set timeout to 2 hours > echo "Formatting... this may take a while." > scsi -s 7200 -f $RAW -c "4 0 0 0 0 0" > > in the scsiformat script. 7200 is too low for big disks. I think this should be raised to a higher value in -current and -stable. Is it ok, if I double the value in the scsiformat script ? Therefore Cc'd to the committers list, so that it might go into 2.2.6. > > sd3: RECOVERED ERROR info:0x3900a7 asc:17,2 Recovered data with positive head offset field replaceable unit: ea sks:80,c > > , retries:4 > > Guessing mode: maybe the drive has trackfollowing errors and is trying > to go slightly off-track to get better signals on it's heads. Ah ;-) On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 09:54:30AM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: > Eeeeeeeeaaaiiii!!!! > > Go into the Adaptec utilities (from the disk adapter) and run the verify > utility. It should reassign (transparently) this, and copy the data at the > same time. > > DO NOT let this go. If you do, that soft (ECC recoverable) error will > likely turn into a hard error and you will lose the data. Ok, thanks ! But what's strange for me is, that I preformatted the disk 12 hours ago ... And then this, hmmm ... -- Andreas Klemm powered by ,,symmetric multiprocessor FreeBSD'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message