From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 23 17:16:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA27567 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:16:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA27546 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:16:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA10476; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:15:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608240015.RAA10476@austin.polstra.com> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urgent - what are these disk errors? In-reply-to: <199608160913.LAA23660@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 17:15:24 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ollivier Robert wrote: > That means a sector can't be read on your disk. > > Try "scsi -f /dev/rsd3.ctl -m 1". You should have the first two parameters > set to 1. If not, use "scsi -f /dev/rsd3.ctl -m 1 -P 3 -e" and change both > of them to 1. From now, read and write errors will result in the sector > mapped as bad and another one substitued. > > AWRE (Auto Write Reallocation Enbld): 1 > ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld): 1 Cool! Do you still get a console message when the error happens? If there are many of them, one might want to replace his disk drive. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth