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Date:      Mon, 02 Mar 1998 11:38:13 GMT
From:      jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly)
To:        Karl Denninger  <karl@mcs.net>
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI low level format, good or bad
Message-ID:  <34fa9859.869792@mail.cetlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980302042753.31713@mcs.net>
References:  <199803012359.PAA10350@dingo.cdrom.com> <35021f91.30584272@mail.cetlink.net> <19980302042753.31713@mcs.net>

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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998 04:27:53 -0600, Karl
http://reptile.rug.ac.be/~coder/sniffit/sniffit.html
  <karl@mcs.net> wrote:

>I've seen a non-trivial number of disks come off the factory line with
>non-optimal formats.

I've seen non-optimal mode page values.  Auto Write Reallocation and
Auto Read Reallocation are often disabled, so I use the scsi utility
to enable them.  And I like to set Read Retry Count and Write Retry
Count to lower values, usually 10 and 7.

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