From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 25 03:53:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA27344 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 03:53:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA27338 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 03:53:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA28152 for hackers@freefall.freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 07:05:19 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199602251205.HAA28152@hda.com> Subject: Re: wierd scsi error message To: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 07:05:19 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <199602251050.CAA10670@ref.tfs.com> from "JULIAN Elischer" at Feb 25, 96 02:50:42 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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