From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Dec 19 15:55:44 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA21340 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 15:55:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA21330 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 15:55:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA04304; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:51:43 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA04732; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:51:31 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id AAA01309; Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:44:58 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612192344.AAA01309@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: A rotten CP30540 To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD SCSI list) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 00:44:58 +0100 (MET) Cc: dkelly@HiWAAY.net Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612180209.UAA06412@nexgen.HiWAAY.net> from "dkelly@HiWAAY.net" at "Dec 17, 96 08:09:41 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As dkelly@HiWAAY.net wrote: > A poor friend of mine was given a couple of rotten Conner CP30540 hard > drives. I'm trying to help him make them into something usable. The problem > is thousands of bad blocks. More bad blocks than the drive has > pre-allocated spares. Have found hints this involves mode page 4. Any > advice? Hmpf. I wouldn't use it either... You could give /sbin/scsiformat a try if you prefer. It's a plain FORMAT MEDIUM command which usually involves entering all new defects into the drive's defect list. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)