Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:43:34 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: timeout when formatting 9GB Barracuda, scsi errors is missing time Message-ID: <19980301214334.35736@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199803011315.OAA04743@yedi.iaf.nl>; from Wilko Bulte on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 02:15:28PM %2B0100 References: <19980301125933.11291@klemm.gtn.com> <199803011315.OAA04743@yedi.iaf.nl>
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On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 02:15:28PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > It think you need to change: > > # formatting may take a huge amount of time, set timeout to 2 hours > echo "Formatting... this may take a while." > scsi -s 7200 -f $RAW -c "4 0 0 0 0 0" > > in the scsiformat script. 7200 is too low for big disks. I think this should be raised to a higher value in -current and -stable. Is it ok, if I double the value in the scsiformat script ? Therefore Cc'd to the committers list, so that it might go into 2.2.6. > > sd3: RECOVERED ERROR info:0x3900a7 asc:17,2 Recovered data with positive head offset field replaceable unit: ea sks:80,c > > , retries:4 > > Guessing mode: maybe the drive has trackfollowing errors and is trying > to go slightly off-track to get better signals on it's heads. Ah ;-) On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 09:54:30AM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote: > Eeeeeeeeaaaiiii!!!! > > Go into the Adaptec utilities (from the disk adapter) and run the verify > utility. It should reassign (transparently) this, and copy the data at the > same time. > > DO NOT let this go. If you do, that soft (ECC recoverable) error will > likely turn into a hard error and you will lose the data. Ok, thanks ! But what's strange for me is, that I preformatted the disk 12 hours ago ... And then this, hmmm ... -- Andreas Klemm powered by ,,symmetric multiprocessor FreeBSD'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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