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Date:      Fri, 8 Mar 1996 09:17:05 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi)
Subject:   Re: MEDIUM ERROR: is my disk really dead ?
Message-ID:  <199603080817.JAA21025@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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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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. ;-)



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