Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 17:15:06 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Cc: gfoster@gfoster.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AWRE/ARRE, was: Help! I got a bad block.... Message-ID: <199511230115.RAA10159@ref.tfs.com> 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 > > _ __________________________________________________________________________ > | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl > |/|/ / / /( (_) Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem - The Netherlands > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
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