From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 24 13:03:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA11955 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 13:03:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA11950 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 13:03:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA23187; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:59:08 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199607241959.MAA23187@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Micropolis, again To: darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:59:08 -0700 (PDT) Cc: tbalfe@falcon.tioga.com, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607241927.AA116046474@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> from Darryl Okahata at "Jul 24, 96 12:27:53 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > gryphon: {3} scsi -f /dev/rsd0 -m 1 > > AWRE (Auto Write Reallocation Enbld): 0 > > ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld): 0 > > You might want to try enabling these. > > Of course, if your drive really is on the way out, enabling these > will only postpone the inevitable. I once used a Fujitsu 2624FA that > developed bad sectors. Enabling AWRE and ARRE helped, but more and more > bad sectors appeared. I finally gave up and drop-kicked the drive. > > If you're interested, I've got a perl script around somewhere that > reads out the table of remapped sectors from SCSI drives (assuming that > AWRE and ARRE are enabled, of course). I would like a copy of that please... it may even find it's way into the FreeBSD source tree... -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD