From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 17:20:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA28239 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 17:20:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay.hp.com (relay.hp.com [15.255.152.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA28155 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 17:20:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from srmail.sr.hp.com by relay.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA149871202; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 17:20:03 -0800 Received: from hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com by srmail.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA188731200; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 17:20:01 -0800 Received: from mina.sr.hp.com by hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.16/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA222901200; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 17:20:00 -0800 Message-Id: <199601310120.AA222901200@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> To: Peter Dufault Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Querying for grown defects? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Jan 1996 20:05:11 EST." <199601310105.UAA22825@hda.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 17:20:00 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day.