From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 31 04:52:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA25730 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 04:52:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA25724 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 04:52:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA24721; Wed, 31 Jan 1996 07:49:30 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199601311249.HAA24721@hda.com> Subject: Re: Querying for grown defects? To: darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata) Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 07:49:29 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199601310120.AA222901200@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> from "Darryl Okahata" at Jan 30, 96 05:20:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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: Are the failures on read? The drive won't automatically slip a sector on a read failure without recovered data. You'll have to write to that location - read the block, ignore the failure, write back. You will lose data that way. I have a program that will use REASSIGN BLOCKS to reassign the blocks. Let me know if you want it and I'll send it. -- Peter Dufault Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267