From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 2 23:32:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA23934 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 23:32:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picasso.wcape.school.za (picasso.wcape.school.za [196.21.102.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA23917 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 23:32:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za) Received: from uucp by picasso.wcape.school.za with local-rmail (Exim 1.92 #2) for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org id 0yrzOk-0006rx-00; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 08:32:42 +0200 Received: from localhost (pvh@localhost) by leftside.wcape.school.za (8.8.8/8.8.4) with SMTP id IAA01211 for ; Fri, 3 Jul 1998 08:30:18 +0200 (SAT) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 08:30:18 +0200 (SAT) From: Peter van Heusden To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: SCSI drive not remapping bad block: Any solution (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I sent this message to freebsd-questions, but didn't get a response. Maybe it was too technical for that list... so I was wondering if anyone on freebsd-hackers had any ideas: I'm getting the following error message from my new SCSI disk: Jul 1 21:46:49 leftside /kernel: sd2(ncr0:4:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:0x38787b asc 11,0 Unrecovered read error field replaceable unit: ea sks:80,11 This is a Seagate ST32155N connected to a ncr 53c810 controller. I've recently reformatted it with scsiformat (after getting the error previously), and I assume that this error message means there is a medium error on the disk. The scsi(8) command shows AWRE and ARRE are both set to 1, yet this error persists, which makes me conclude that the disk is not remapping the block correctly. Is there any way to deal with this problem? I read in the freebsd-questions archive that someone talked about manually remapping the block - is this possible, and if so, how? Is there any other solution? Thanks for any advice - I'd really like to not throw out a newly acquired (from my wife's brother) 2gb disk. Peter -- Peter van Heusden | Computers Networks Reds Greens Justice Peace Beer Africa pvh@leftside.wcape.school.za | Support the SAMWU 50 litres campaign! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message