Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:41:39 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is my disk going bad? Message-ID: <199610242041.NAA06512@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:23:12 PDT." <Pine.BSI.3.94.961024132239.14287G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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>On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Bill Fenner wrote: > >> I just noticed that I've been getting these for a while: >> >> sd1(ncr0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:119a05 csi:6,a8,3,41 asc:11,43 field replaceable unit: 15 sks:80,40 >> >> sd1 is a Quantum 1080S. I don't have the probe messages since the >> medium error messages have scrolled them away. >> >> I just yesterday turned on remapping: >> >> % scsi -f /dev/rsd1 -m 1 >> AWRE (Auto Write Reallocation Enbld): 1 >> ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld): 1 >> >> but it's not remapping, it's still returning errors. >> >> Is this the disk going so bad that it can't reallocate to good blocks? > >How full is it? Once you've filled the disk then it can't reallocate >those bad sectors anywhere else. Uhh, gurp. Drives reserve spare tracks and blocks for use in reallocation. The space does not come from the filesystem free block pool. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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