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Date:      Wed, 12 Aug 1998 18:43:23 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: disk errors 
Message-ID:  <199808130143.SAA01685@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Aug 1998 20:24:45 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808122020120.578-100000@picnic.mat.net> 

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> 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.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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