Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 17:20:00 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Querying for grown defects? Message-ID: <199601310120.AA222901200@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jan 1996 20:05:11 EST." <199601310105.UAA22825@hda.com>
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> scsi(8) will let you send any command to the drive, so if you have
> the scsi II spec you can probably rig up the right incantation.
> I don't think you want to, though, since...
That's what I thought. I've got an MS Windows 3.1 program that
will query for grown defects, but I really don't want to install Windows
just to find the defects .... I've got a DOS partition with adequate
disk space, but I really don't want to do this. ;-)
> you can look at your mode pages to see if you have it on. You want
> to look at mode page 1:
Thanks, but I've already verified that AWRE and ARRE are set to "1"
(they weren't originally, but I did set them via the "-e -P 3" option)..
Just last night, I started to get occasional "media errors" (which is
what started all this), and I'm trying to figure out if the drive is:
* Dying. ;-)
* Out of spare blocks.
* Getting more and more bad sectors.
* Just not sparing bad sectors (even though the mode page is set
correctly -- buggy firmware?). This is an old Fujitsu 2624FA drive,
BTW.
* Acting as it always has. I just upgraded to 2.1.0R last night, and
the warnings started to appear soon after .... Coincidence, or does
2.1.0R output better SCSI warning messages?
-- Darryl Okahata
Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com
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