From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Aug 12 18:45:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA18813 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 18:45:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA18795 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 18:45:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA01685; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 18:43:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808130143.SAA01685@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Chuck Robey cc: FreeBSD-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disk errors In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:24:45 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 18:43:23 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I've formatted my new 4G IBM scsi disk, and I'm trying to copy the > contents of an existing 2G disk onto it before moving the 2G disk out of > the machine. During the copy, I got error messages that stopped the > copy, and my /var/log shows: > > Aug 12 20:14:31 picnic /kernel: sd2: MEDIUM ERROR info:0x81007f asc:11,0 > Unrecovered read error sks:80,33 > > Lot's of those errors, as the disk was retried lots of times. I tried > redoing the copy, and the same error shows up. This is a new disk, and > I've only disklabeled and newfs'ed it; is there any procedure I should > have followed to detect and spare out any bad sectors? The controller's > a NCR 875, and not yet running CAM. See the SCSI(8) manpage for an example of editing mode page 1; set ARRE and AWRE to 1. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message