From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 5 05:35:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA14281 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 05:35:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from al.imforei.apana.org.au (pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au [202.12.89.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA14268 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 05:35:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pjchilds@localhost) by al.imforei.apana.org.au (8.8.0/8.7.3) id WAA16911; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 22:03:42 +0930 (CST) From: Peter Childs Message-Id: <199610051233.WAA16911@al.imforei.apana.org.au> Subject: Re: Help! /bin/csh is gone! In-Reply-To: from Steve at "Oct 5, 96 08:32:28 am" To: shovey@buffnet.net (Steve) Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 22:03:41 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Some scsi drives come with badsector remapping turned off for some > > stupid reason... check the freebsd faq about using the > > 'scsi' > > command to enable it for this drive.. that should fix your problem. > > I use adaptec controllers precisely because they have routine easily > gotten to in the bios that will 'verify' a drive and perform the remap > etc. Hmm.. fair enuff... anyway.. we are probabaly on different wave lengths but the FAQ (2.16) states... --quote-- To enable this, you'll need to edit the first device page mode, which can be done on FreeBSD by giving the command (as root) scsi -f /dev/rsd0c -m 1 -e -P 3 and changing the values of AWRE and ARRE from 0 to 1:- AWRE (Auto Write Reallocation Enbld): 1 ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld): 1 --endquote-- I was suprised to fine neary every scsi drive on the machines i look after had these off :( When one of my news disks on a ccd went down it caused me a lot of pain before i found this option and turned it on. Regards, Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object!