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Date:      Wed, 22 Nov 1995 03:21:54 +0000 ()
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.)
Cc:        hasty@rah.star-gate.com, julian@ref.tfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help! I got a bad block....
Message-ID:  <199511220321.DAA24577@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199511220128.RAA00896@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Nov 21, 95 05:28:41 pm

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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

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