From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 9 19:35:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA12522 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 May 1997 19:35:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from admin.cyberenet.net (mail@admin.cyberenet.net [204.213.252.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA12517 for ; Fri, 9 May 1997 19:35:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from twwells.com [199.79.159.1] (root) by admin.cyberenet.net with smtp (Exim 1.61 #7) id 0wQ20G-0006NU-00; Fri, 9 May 1997 22:35:21 -0400 Received: by twwells.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #8) id m0wQ1y6-0000o9C; Fri, 9 May 97 22:33 EDT Message-Id: From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) Subject: Re: scsi MEDIUM ERRORS? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 22:33:05 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : > Note that these are unrecovered read errors. The SCSI spec doesn't : > permit the drive to fix these. Since this is a new drive, format : > it with scsiformat, verify that ARRE and AWRE are on in mode page 1, : > and then try again. It is disconcerting that you received the : > drive like this. : : If scsiformat doesn't work, as it didn't for me in a similar case, : try rewriting the whole drive, as in : : dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsdN bs=1b Thanks for the info, guys. I hadn't realized there was a formatting tool that ran under FreeBSD. Though...it sure as hell didn't format it in under ten seconds. :-) Oh well. I'll see if writing zeroes does the trick.... : after making sure ARRE and AWRE are on in mode page 1. That way : the drive can try to reassign blocks for write error. You both mentioned those bits....what are they? How are they manipulated? : I'd try to get the drive replaced or repaired, though. It's not : a Quantum Empire by any chance, is it? :-) A Quantum Fireball...and this *is* the replacement. :-| The first one appeared to have something wrong with seeking....