Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 07:05:19 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: wierd scsi error message Message-ID: <199602251205.HAA28152@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199602251050.CAA10670@ref.tfs.com> from "JULIAN Elischer" at Feb 25, 96 02:50:42 am
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> > The error occured during an operation for which a successful > status had already been returned to the driver.. I would guess that > this was a write-behind operation and that teh write could not succeed. > Asa guess the AWRE (or whatever it is) bit was not set in hte drive > config, otherwise it should have silently remapped the bad block. > (unless it wasn't a media error). This would be a poor setup for the disk - write caching enabled and write reallocation disabled. We can add to our 2001 things to tweak in the scsi code: sanity checking the disk setup. A flag to scsi(8) could be added for use during the install. -- Peter Dufault Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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