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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: disk going bad?
To: hsu@freefall.freebsd.org (Jeffrey Hsu)
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 14:32:06 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199509241944.MAA10897@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jeffrey Hsu" at Sep 24, 95 12:44:52 pm
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Under 2.0.5, run the sample script in the scsi(8 or 1) man page
to turn on bad-block remapping

julian
> 
> I'm having incredibly bad luck w/ hard drives.  One of my drives just
> exhibited the following errors.  Fsck also fails on these medium errors.
> Does this mean my drive is going bad and I should replace it (still
> under warranty) or will a simple reformat take care of the problem?
> It's a scsi drive, which I thought took care of bad sector automatically,
> but I guess not.  Note, I get a lot of these medium errors from running
> fsck and that just last night, everything was fine.
> 
> Sep 24 12:27:41 armour /kernel: sd2(uha0:6:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:2f1412 asc:11,0
>  Unrecovered read error
> Sep 24 12:27:46 armour /kernel: , retries:4
> Sep 24 12:27:46 armour /kernel: sd2(uha0:6:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:2f1412 asc:11,0
>  Unrecovered read error
> Sep 24 12:27:54 armour /kernel: , retries:3
> Sep 24 12:27:54 armour /kernel: sd2(uha0:6:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:2f1412 asc:11,0
>  Unrecovered read error
> Sep 24 12:27:54 armour /kernel: , retries:2
> Sep 24 12:27:54 armour /kernel: sd2(uha0:6:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:2f1412 asc:11,0
>  Unrecovered read error
> Sep 24 12:27:54 armour /kernel: , retries:1
> Sep 24 12:27:54 armour /kernel: sd2(uha0:6:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:2f1411 asc:11,0
>  Unrecovered read error
> Sep 24 12:27:54 armour /kernel: , FAILURE
>