From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 3 13:50:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16440 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 13:50:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from homer.supersex.com (homer.supersex.com [209.5.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16352 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 13:50:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leo@homer.supersex.com) Received: (from leo@localhost) by homer.supersex.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id QAA24605; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 16:50:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980703165055.30779@supersex.com> Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 16:50:56 -0400 From: Leo Papandreou To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI bad blocks References: <199807030945.CAA16587@monk.via.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Peter van Heusden on Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 06:20:35PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 06:20:35PM +0200, Peter van Heusden wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Joe McGuckin wrote: > > > > > I have three Seagate Barracuda 4G disks CCD'd into a 12G array. > > > > I'm getting files that I cannot delete. fsck says that it can't read > > 6 or 8 consecutive sectors in the array. > > > > I think I have auto block remapping enable on all the scsi drives. > > How can I make the drive remap these bad blocks? > > I've got pretty much the same problem - according to the answers I just > received on freebsd-hackers, this problem means really bad news - your > drive is out of blocks to remap the bad ones to, and is basically busy > dying. Is the spontaneous creation of bad blocks just something that's going to happen to all drives? If so, does this mean that allowing a drive to become 100% full is never good policy? I've taken a disk out of commision recently because it was unable to remap its bad blocks. I'm wondering if its worth trying to remap them after deleting a couple of directories. The disk is destined for the trash but if I can remap the bad blocks, well it sure would beat re- storing over a networked tape drive. > > The answer appears to 'replace the drives'. > > Peter > -- > Peter van Heusden | Computers Networks Reds Greens Justice Peace Beer Africa > pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za | Support the SAMWU 50 litres campaign! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message