From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 24 12:28:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA09086 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:28:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.hp.com (relay.hp.com [15.255.152.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA09051 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:28:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from srmail.sr.hp.com by relay.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA171626476; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:27:56 -0700 Received: from hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com by srmail.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA273706474; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:27:55 -0700 Received: from mina.sr.hp.com by hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA116046474; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:27:54 -0700 Message-Id: <199607241927.AA116046474@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> To: Thomas J Balfe Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Micropolis, again In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jul 1996 15:04:42 EDT." Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:27:53 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > gryphon: {3} scsi -f /dev/rsd0 -m 1 > AWRE (Auto Write Reallocation Enbld): 0 > ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld): 0 You might want to try enabling these. Of course, if your drive really is on the way out, enabling these will only postpone the inevitable. I once used a Fujitsu 2624FA that developed bad sectors. Enabling AWRE and ARRE helped, but more and more bad sectors appeared. I finally gave up and drop-kicked the drive. If you're interested, I've got a perl script around somewhere that reads out the table of remapped sectors from SCSI drives (assuming that AWRE and ARRE are enabled, of course). -- Darryl Okahata Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day.