From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 4 13:43:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D90EE37B502 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 13:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA08873 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:43:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA12458 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:43:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id G1XAW000.Q71; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 16:43:12 -0400 Message-ID: <39DB964A.86AFAE84@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 16:42:50 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jaye Mathisen Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IDE drives doing BBR? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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