From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 21 19:24:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA22946 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 19:24:26 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA22930 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 19:24:14 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id DAA24577; Wed, 22 Nov 1995 03:21:54 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511220321.DAA24577@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Help! I got a bad block.... To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 03:21:54 +0000 () Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199511220128.RAA00896@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Nov 21, 95 05:28:41 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 844 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Amancio Hasty Jr. stands accused of saying: > > Writes to the bad block are failing per fsck ... > On a fsck stage , it attempts to write nulls to the bad block > and the drive fails. I do have AWRE and ARRE set on the disk. Have you powercycled the drive? Some don't appear to honour A*RE except at startup. Have you had A*RE enabled for a while? ie. is it possible that you're out of replacement sectors? You may have some joy with badsect(8) > Amancio -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[