From owner-freebsd-scsi Fri Mar 8 03:17:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA01029 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:17:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA00954 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 03:17:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id AAA23081 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 00:22:38 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA04329; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:20:41 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA11977; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:20:41 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA21025; Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:17:06 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603080817.JAA21025@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: MEDIUM ERROR: is my disk really dead ? To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:17:05 +0100 (MET) Cc: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <9603080031.AA15431@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> from "Jean-Marc Zucconi" at Mar 8, 96 01:31:43 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: > > 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: Have you tried the automatic remapping feature? However, since you've already reformatted (assuming you've got not one of the forgery disks that can't be formatted, e.g. from Quantum), chances are low. Well, you could fight against bad144. :-] -- 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. ;-)