From owner-freebsd-scsi Sat Oct 27 15:35:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.noos.fr (descartes.noos.net [212.198.2.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1298B37B406 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:35:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 32652366 invoked by uid 0); 27 Oct 2001 22:35:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.229.145]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.74 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 27 Oct 2001 22:35:32 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9RMZRQ77062; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 00:35:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Message-Id: <200110272235.f9RMZRQ77062@gits.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: repeating medium errors and error from "camcontrol defects" In-Reply-To: <20011026111106.A52864@panzer.kdm.org> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 00:35:27 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Alexander Leidinger , scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: clefevre@citeweb.net From: Cyrille Lefevre Organization: ACME X-Face: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94c (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 12:21:56 +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote: [snip] > Then, write zeroes to the bad block to force the drive to remap it. I'm not really sure this always work. the way I use to remap bad block is to make a read check using the SCSI BIOS controller (TEKRAM and probably ADAPTEC allow this at boot time), when errors are encountered, the BIOS asks you whether or not you want to remap the defective block. so, I'm sure that bad blocks are remapped since it asks me to do something. Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message