From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Oct 7 15:22:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA27734 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 15:22:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA27726 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 15:22:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA03017; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 00:22:22 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id AAA11675; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 00:20:47 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971008002047.AG30116@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 00:20:47 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: paul@mu.org (Paul Saab) Subject: Re: errors.. hosed? References: <199710071355.IAA08824@elvis.mu.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199710071355.IAA08824@elvis.mu.org>; from Paul Saab on Oct 7, 1997 08:55:53 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Paul Saab wrote: > I take it this means the disk is bad? > > sd4(ahc1:2:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:915f5 csi:1,e8,1,79 asc:11,0 Unrecovered read error field replaceable unit: 15 Basically, yes. Do you have automatic sector replacement enabled (mode page 1, see scsi(8))? Reformatting the disk (scsiformat(8)) might help, since it usually rebuilds the bad sector table as well. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)