Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 13:19:58 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Bad sectors on SCSI drive! Message-ID: <199501041219.NAA03631@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> In-Reply-To: <12492.789175472@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 3, 95 03:24:32 pm
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
|
| > Allright, so what can be done? How can I map out bad sectors on a scsi
| > drive? Do I have to newfs the drive?
|
| Return it to the manufacturer. A good SCSI drive shouldn't develop faults
| like this, and when it does, it's time to shoot it.
If you don't like this, hook it up to a SCSI adapter with PC BIOS
enabled, start the BIOS diag (usually g c800:6 or so from a debugger),
and try to low-level format it. Some people say this causes bad
sectors to be re-mapped.
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