From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Apr 2 9:37: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB32714BDB for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 09:36:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA12765; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 09:36:14 -0800 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 09:36:13 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: James Munroe , freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI error code question (No defect spare location available) In-Reply-To: <199904021735.KAA02701@panzer.plutotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > James Munroe wrote... > > Does anyone know what the SCSI error code "No defect spare location > > available field replaceable unit: 3" means? I am running FreeBSD 2.2.5 and > > I am getting this message occasionally in the kernel logs. Thank you in > > advance. > > It probably means that your hard disk attempted to remap a bad block, but > is out of spare sectors to use for remapping. > > My guess is that your drive is about dead. > You *could* reformat with more spares.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message