Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 16:42:50 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE drives doing BBR? Message-ID: <39DB964A.86AFAE84@mitre.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010041251240.32574-100000@apocalypse.cdsnet.net>
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Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > Used ABBR on SCSI disks all the time, very nice. > > Remember reading on hackers somewhere that newer drives like IBM supported > this feature. I'm getting a few bad blocks on a 75GB IBM drive (at least > according to the ata driver), and rather than replacing it and moves on, > the disk basically dies. > > However, I run the IBM drive fitness test, it works some magic in there > writing data to the drive, and the drive is back, and the failed block now > seems fine. > > So is there some equivalent of camcontrol or scsicmd for ATA drives that > turns on this feature, and allows my running system to take advantage of > it? > > Or do I just write nul's to the block or 0's, and it's supposed to do it > automatically? or do I just punt. Or a possible third option: A 75GB IBM HD is probablly still within the warentee period. Assuming you don't play fetch with your dog and the HD, you can probabally get it replaced. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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