From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 17 23:20:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA29334 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 23:20:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns2.gamespot.com (ns2.gamespot.com [206.169.18.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA29322 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 23:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ian@localhost) by ns2.gamespot.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA09112; Sun, 17 Aug 1997 23:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 23:20:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Kallen To: Joerg Wunsch cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dead disk In-Reply-To: <19970818073229.DO12056@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, J Wunsch wrote: > Did you turn on automatic error recovery? It's on mode page 1 (see > scsi(8)). > > If you turn it on right now, you can't fix the old errors unless you > overwrite the bad block (0x50033, block number from the beginning of > the device). Poking through the archives and the man page, I just don't find anything informative leading towards a resolution. Does this tell me anything I can you to save this disk? # scsi -f /dev/rsd3.ctl -m 1 AWRE (Auto Write Reallocation Enbld): 0 ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld): 0 TB (Transfer Block): 0 RC (Read Continuous): 0 EER (Enable Early Recovery): 0 PER (Post Error): 0 DTE (Disable Transfer on Error): 0 DCR (Disable Correction): 0 Read Retry Count: 16 Correction Span: 22 Head Offset Count: 0 Data Strobe Offset Count: 0 Write Retry Count: 16 Recovery Time Limit: 0 thanks -Ian -- Ian Kallen ian@gamespot.com Director of Technology and Web Administration SpotMedia Communications http://www.gamespot.com/ http://www.videogamespot.com/