Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 14:15:28 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: timeout when formatting 9GB Barracuda, scsi errors is missing time Message-ID: <199803011315.OAA04743@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <19980301125933.11291@klemm.gtn.com> from Andreas Klemm at "Mar 1, 98 12:59:33 pm"
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As Andreas Klemm wrote...
> Hi !
>
> Encountered two problems with -current, which might be in -STABLE
> as well:
>
> a) scsiformat returned an timeout, when I formatted a Seagate
> Barracuda. I don't know exactly, but it lasts a very long
> time to preformat this beast.
> Using scsiformat I wasn't able to preformat it.
> I had to use Adaptecs scsiformat tool from DOS.
It think you need to change:
# formatting may take a huge amount of time, set timeout to 2 hours
echo "Formatting... this may take a while."
scsi -s 7200 -f $RAW -c "4 0 0 0 0 0"
in the scsiformat script. 7200 is too low for big disks.
> b) Tonight the Barracuda got some things to do, a make release ...
>
> sd3: RECOVERED ERROR info:0x3900a7 asc:17,2 Recovered data with positive head offset field replaceable unit: ea sks:80,c
> , retries:4
> sd3: RECOVERED ERROR info:0x3900a7 asc:17,2 Recovered data with positive head offset field replaceable unit: ea sks:80,c
> , retries:3
> sd3: RECOVERED ERROR info:0x3900a7 asc:17,2 Recovered data with positive head offset field replaceable unit: ea sks:80,c
> , retries:2
> What's the exact meaning of these messages ? I think the harddisk
> has discovered a bad sector or such and repaired it ... Or what
> do you think ? What is asc: 17,2 ???
Guessing mode: maybe the drive has trackfollowing errors and is trying
to go slightly off-track to get better signals on it's heads.
ASC: additional sense code
The 17,2 reads in the scsi spec as: Recovered data with positive head
offset
Great huh? ;-)
> And here a suggestion from me ... would it be possible, that such
> SCSI messages get a "date stamp" ?!
Might be very useful, but not only for SCSI messages I suppose.
W/
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