From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 22 16:52:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA17386 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:52:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hda.hda.com (hda-bicnet.bicnet.net [207.198.1.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA17373 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:52:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.hda.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA28491; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:39:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199704222339.TAA28491@hda.hda.com> Subject: Re: disk error messages, what do they mean? In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Apr 22, 97 03:09:59 pm" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:39:17 -0400 (EDT) Cc: sjkb@abstractsoft.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Sonja Jo Krenz-Bush wrote: > > > Apr 19 09:04:31 itchy /kernel: sd1(ahc0:5:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:2c0080 > > asc:c,2 Write error - auto reallocation failed field replaceable unit: 9 > > Apr 19 13:12:57 itchy /kernel: sd1(ahc0:5:0): RECOVERED ERROR info:1a0060 > > asc:12,0 Address mark not found for id field field replaceable unit: d8 > > sks:80,1f > > Run > > scsi -f /dev/rsd1 -m 1 -P 0 > > Make sure that the following are set: > > AWRE (Auto Write Reallocation Enbld): 1 > ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld): 1 Note that the drive is sort of claiming that they are on since the "auto reallocation failed". There may be too many bad sectors on a track. Use the perl script Joerg recently committed to read back the bad sectors, examine the output, and possibly use this to ask for a new drive (assuming you find something strange like an entire track gone bad). -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936