From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 26 17:54:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21701 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:54:51 -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 RAA21618 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:54:36 -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 RAA00903; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:54:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:54:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Rich Morin cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk setup questions In-Reply-To: <9802262237.AA10899@cfcl.com> 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 On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Rich Morin wrote: > Dear people- > > I am running FreeBSD 2.2.1 on a 200 MHz Pentium system with 64 MB of RAM > and an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card. I have gotten "media error" several times > on a couple of Micropolis 9 GB (MICROP 1991-27) disk drives. So, I ran > scsiformat on both drives, with no reported errors. I then used /stand/ > sysinstall to set up each drive as a single "C" partition. Finally, I > tried to newfs the drives (e.g., "newfs -m 5 /dev/rsd3c"). > > Both drives failed this procedure, hanging the machine (or at least the > SCSI bus) in the process. Specifically, newfs printed out a series of > perhaps hals a dozen super-block numbers, then hung. I was able to ping > the machine, but not to rlogin into it. How long did you let it spin here? It may have hit the bad blocks and the kernel got confused; the SCSI card may eventually notice it and try to unstick the system. If bad blocks are poking through, you need to verify that bad sector remapping is enabled; if it is, then you are probably going to have more problems. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message