Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 15:33:32 GMT From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.hda.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI harddisk trouble: MEDIUM ERROR Message-ID: <199610281533.PAA23211@deacon.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Peter Dufault's message of Mon, 28 Oct 1996 09:06:47 -0500 (EST)
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> Here is a sketch of what an "automatic tool" could do. > I don't think it is worth it, and such a tool may give > people a false sense of having fixed things that they haven't: As far as I can see, they *have* fixed things, apart from still having a damaged file. Maybe if you add a step > 5. Write the (probably garbage) data back, > causing it to reassign the block or at least store the data; 5.5. Delete the file containing the bad sector (after asking the user, of course) or move it to lost+found. > 6. fsck. Of course, if it's a directory block things are worse. I'd like such a tool; I have a couple of Syquest removable disks with bad sectors and wouldn't be surprised to get more. -- Richard
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