From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 4 05:51:40 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id FAA24355 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 05:51:40 -0800 Received: from wcarchive.cdrom.com (wcarchive.cdrom.com [192.216.191.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA24344 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 05:51:30 -0800 Received: from orion.stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil ([158.9.11.65]) by wcarchive.cdrom.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA06195 for ; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 05:50:52 -0800 Message-Id: <199501041350.FAA06195@wcarchive.cdrom.com> Received: by orion.stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil (1.37.109.11/16.2) id AA030847424; Wed, 4 Jan 1995 08:50:24 -0500 From: william pechter ILEX Subject: Re: Bad sectors on SCSI drive! To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 08:50:23 -0500 (EST) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com (FreeBSD-hackers) In-Reply-To: <199501041219.NAA03631@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 4, 95 01:19:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 967 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. > Adaptec has a scsi format utility that will do the same thing with the 154x controllers and probably the other adaptec ones. Check their ftp site. Bill ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter |Systems Administrator | Ilex Systems |170 Patterson Ave | Shrewsbury, New Jersey 07702 908-532-2943 |pechter@sesd.ilex.com | pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil