From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 8:34:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B17937B424 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 08:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA22387 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:34:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:34:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fixing scsi drives 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 I rely heavily on my adaptec controller rom's for remapping bad spots on scsi drives (I know with scsi you can set the bit that is supposed cause a scsi drive to do that automatically - Ive yet to find a drive that actually does it though) I would like unix alternatives - I know there are utilities, like bad144 (which Im not sure is usable with scsi), badsect etc - but the man pages on them are unclear (they appear more meant as a memory refresher than a how to to a newbie with them, no example lines for instance). Does anyone know where I can see a good example of a good utility for this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message