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Date:      Fri, 8 Mar 1996 05:50:59 -0500 (EST)
From:      Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
To:        jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi)
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MEDIUM ERROR: is my disk really dead ?
Message-ID:  <199603081051.FAA08882@hda.com>
In-Reply-To: <9603080031.AA15431@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> from "Jean-Marc Zucconi" at Mar 8, 96 01:31:43 am

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> I have problems with a disk. I got media errors, and a losed a
> partition, then a second, then a third... (in about 5 days). 
> So i reformatted the disk and I stressed it (I filled it 100 times in
> 24hours - this is a 1GB disk) and got 'only' 6 errors:
> Mar  7 04:12:48 qix /kk: sd2(ncr0:4:0): Deferred Error: MEDIUM ERROR info:9778b  asc:3,0 Peripheral device write fault
> Mar  7 04:28:35 qix /kk: sd2(ncr0:4:0): Deferred Error: MEDIUM ERROR info:939d6  asc:3,0 Peripheral device write fault
> Mar  7 04:45:19 qix /kk: sd2(ncr0:4:0): Deferred Error: MEDIUM ERROR info:5e230 asc:3,0 Peripheral device write fault
> Mar  7 04:45:43 qix /kk: sd2(ncr0:4:0): Deferred Error: MEDIUM ERROR info:6a205 asc:3,0 Peripheral device write fault
> Mar  7 04:47:50 qix /kk: sd2(ncr0:4:0): Deferred Error: MEDIUM ERROR info:ad0b8 asc:3,0 Peripheral device write fault
> Mar  7 06:05:49 qix /kk: sd2(ncr0:4:0): Deferred Error: MEDIUM ERROR info:199c70 asc:3,0 Peripheral device write fault
> 

Make sure "AWRE" (automatic write reallocation on error) is on so your
drive will map out that sector.  You probably want ARRE on also.  use the
"scsi(8)" mode page editor.

Peter

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