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Subject: Re: AWRE/ARRE, was: Help! I got a bad block....
To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 17:15:06 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199511221853.TAA00862@yedi.iaf.nl> from "Wilko Bulte" at Nov 22, 95 07:53:02 pm
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> 
> > So to what do you set AWRE and ARRE to turn them on? 1? I looked
> > through all the scsi stuff I could find but didn't find anything that
> > documented the options and permissable values, (maybe I'm perceptively
> > and/or cognitively challenged).  If one of the SCSI gurus could point
> > me to this info., I'd appreciate it!
> 
> Both are a function of the SCSI drive itself. You have to (de)select
> it by setting the appropriate bit(s) in the drives modepages. 
> 
> Doing so take something like SCSICNTRL.EXE an unsupported tool from
> Adaptec that runs on top of a ASPI compliant driver.
> 
> Maybe there is also a way to do it using FreeBSD, but I dunno.
> 
> Wilko
> 
> > moderately loaded news server with a fair amount of disk activity.
> > What does this mean?  Does it mean that these sectors have not yet
> > been used for files, does fsck work the disk harder than normal file
> > system operations, or what?
> 
> Maybe the sectors contain only filesystem metadata for as of yet
> unused data areas??
> 
> Wilko
> 
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