Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 19:23:13 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil (william pechter ILEX) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de, FreeBSD-hackers@wcarchive.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Bad sectors on SCSI drive! Message-ID: <199501050023.TAA02567@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199501041350.FAA06195@wcarchive.cdrom.com> from "william pechter ILEX" at Jan 4, 95 08:50:23 am
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william pechter ILEX writes: > > > > > 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. And if you type "^A" during boot with a 1542C one of the disk utilities in the firmware will let you reformat the drive. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267 -- Formerly hd@world.std.com. E-mail problems? Tell hdslip@iii.net
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