Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:15:36 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: optical drives Message-ID: <199704180745.RAA24693@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <E0wI746-0004ij-00@rover.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Apr 18, 97 00:22:33 am"
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Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > In message <199704180309.MAA21105@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Michael Smith writes: > : I haven't busted the door on my Jazz yet, and it gets quite a lot of > : use. OTOH, I've had one cart die on me (media error) and another grow > : at least one defect (I'm not sure if it's successfully mapped it, > : although it claims to do ARRE and AWRE). > > I've had similar experiences. > > dump 0f /dev/rst0 /jaz ; scsiformat /jaz ; fdisk ; disklabel ; newfs /jaz > mount /jaz ; restore -rf /dev/rst0 > > fixed it. Mine refused to read the filesystem (bad blocks in the metadata), but the disk was expendable (scratch disk). However, it would fail a low-level SCSI format command, so I was fairly sure it was _toast_. > Warner > -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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