Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 17:10:56 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> To: wjw@iae.nl Cc: scsi@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Trouble on my DPT controller Message-ID: <199907062310.RAA87097@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <19990706230622.427C59FAE@surf.iae.nl> from Willem Jan Withagen at "Jul 7, 1999 01:06:21 am"
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Willem Jan Withagen wrote... > You ( Kenneth D. Merry ) write: > => > Is there any way to test the individual disks-defects "through" the DPT > => > controller? > => > [~wjw] root@hobby> scsi-defects /dev/rda1 Plist > => > SCIOCCOMMAND ioctl: Inappropriate ioctl for device > => > There are no defects (in this list). > => > => Well, that's an old script, written for the old SCSI layer's userland > => interface. Try 'camcontrol defects', like this: > => > => camcontrol defects -n da -u 0 -f phys -PG > => > => If you look at the camcontrol(8) man page or 'camcontrol help', you'll see > => more information about the defects command. > > Good suggestion. We'll be using that at work as well. > > It does work om my old Micropolis on the AHC0, but on the DPT it's giving > zero errors for both grown and factory defects. And the latter I find sort > of hard to believe. > It even reporst nothing on the single disk to the DPT I wonder if the DPT is filtering the command somehow. I also find it hard to believe that your disk has no defects. > I'had been toying with these command: > an eject on my dpt RAID-5 gives me an invalid array :-) > So you might want to disable that in the code for fixed-drives. Heh, well, part of the fun of camcontrol is that it gives users 10 miles more rope than they need to hang themselves. :) For even more fun, you can try out my camcontrol format patches: http://www.freebsd.org/~ken/camcontrol.format.061799 Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@plutotech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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