From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jun 16 10:47:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA17849 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:47:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kithrup.com (kithrup.com [205.179.156.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA17844 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:47:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sef@kithrup.com) Received: (from sef@localhost) by kithrup.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA06801 for hardware@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:47:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sef) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:47:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean Eric Fagan Message-Id: <199806161747.KAA06801@kithrup.com> To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: scsi disk question Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I posted about this to -stable this morning, but now it's a hardware question I think :). I've got an IBM DCAS 3216W (2G UW drive) as my root disk, sd0. After a power failure, /var/news/history.pag contained a non-recoverable bad block -- the kernel would try four or five times to access it, and then would fail, resulting in an I/O failure. This persisted after a reboot. After I found the file with the bad block, I removed it, and recreated it; this went well, and, so far, the system has continued to function. My question is: will the disk now ignore this bad block? Normally, I'd assume it would (it being an intelligent, scsi disk with Read-Write Error Recovery enabled), but, well, it didn't before :(. I'm currently planning on getting a new disk today, but I'd prefer not to if possible, obviously :). Anyone know for sure? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message