Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 15:38:54 GMT From: David Alan Gilbert <gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk> To: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Medium errors Message-ID: <9703131538.AA26393@amu7.cs.man.ac.uk>
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Hi,
Well I flipped AWRE etc on - Previously where dd'ing reading the disc
would give log messages followed by an I/O error in the DD, now it managed
to kill the machine and cause it to reboot itself. Great.
The drive surface checked on a Sun; so I scsiformat'd it back on the PC
and it seems OK.
However:
1) Can someone explain to me what the Sun is doing with defect lists? How
do I look at the 'manufacturers defect list' on FreeBSD - and what does
it affect?
2) The disklabel stuff STILL doesn't work. I tried zero'ing the disc
first; but running disklabel gives me various IOCTL errors.
I tried using the /stand/sysinstall program and it happily fdisk'd
but then segfaulted when it tried to label it. In the end I dd'd
the partition and disklabel information from another (different sized
disc) and then edited it - once a sensible partition/disklabel is on its
happy.
I think it must be a kernel related thing because the version on the
boot disc works OK.
Dave
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