Date: 19 Jan 1999 05:41:35 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fireball woes (continued) Message-ID: <xzp3e576fi8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Kenneth D. Merry"'s message of "Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:31:01 -0700 (MST)" References: <199901190431.VAA05784@panzer.plutotech.com>
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"Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> writes: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote... > Yeah, if the disk your swap partition is on goes south, you'll have trouble. No, I don't have swap there. I suspect the binaries 'make release' installed on /usr/release got corrupted. > Do you have read/write reallocation turned on for that disk? If not, edit > mode page 1 and turn them on. Then, back up whatever you can get off the > disk. Did that last time. root@niobe ~# camcontrol modepage -n da -u 1 -m 1 AWRE (Auto Write Reallocation Enbld): 1 ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld): 1 There's nothing important there anyway: root@niobe ~# df | grep da1 /dev/da1e 254063 211793 21945 91% /usr/obj /dev/da1g 5116967 3612584 1095026 77% /mp3 /dev/da1f 762223 28696 672550 4% /usr/release > Then try writing to the entire disk, to try to force it to remap any bad > blocks it has on the disk. Then read from every block on the disk and see > if you get any errors. (dd is probably the best for both) Wilco. > If you still have trouble, you can try formatting the disk. The following > command will probably do the trick: > > camcontrol cmd -v -t 7200 -n da -u 1 -c "4 0 0 0 0 0" OK. > I do know, however, that the 0F0C firmware for the Fireball ST is buggy, > and you're likely to see it hang up in certain situations under high load. > You'll probably be happier if you can get the 0F0J firmware (the 0FS1 > firmware may also work okay). Of course, you shouldn't bother if the disk > is going south. I'm considering turning the disk in for a refund and buying an IBM UltraStar instead. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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