Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 18:27:00 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI low level format, good or bad Message-ID: <199803060027.SAA11083@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> of "Mon, 02 Mar 1998 17:23:50 CST." <19980302172350.11640@mcs.net>
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Karl Denninger writes: > On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 06:06:27AM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > > Karl Denninger writes: > > > > > > I've seen a non-trivial number of disks come off the factory line with > > > non-optimal formats. I don't know if its a temperature tolerance thing o > r > > > what, but this has been my experience. > > > > What do you consider a non-optimal format? > > One which generates errors after short periods of being online (small numbers > of unrecoverable block errors), among other things. Then there is the > entire mode page issue. Come to think of it, problems like this could be due to a noisy or poor power supply. Often they get noisier (electrically) when they get hot. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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