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Date:      Fri, 3 Jul 1998 16:50:56 -0400
From:      Leo Papandreou <leo@talcom.net>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI bad blocks
Message-ID:  <19980703165055.30779@supersex.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980703181918.2567B-100000@leftside.wcape.school.za>; from Peter van Heusden on Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 06:20:35PM %2B0200
References:  <199807030945.CAA16587@monk.via.net> <Pine.BSF.3.95.980703181918.2567B-100000@leftside.wcape.school.za>

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On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 06:20:35PM +0200, Peter van Heusden wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Joe McGuckin wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I have three Seagate Barracuda 4G disks CCD'd into a 12G array.
> > 
> > I'm getting files that I cannot delete. fsck says that it can't read
> > 6 or 8 consecutive sectors in the array.
> > 
> > I think I have auto block remapping enable on all the scsi drives.
> > How can I make the drive remap these bad blocks?
> 
> I've got pretty much the same problem - according to the answers I just
> received on freebsd-hackers, this problem means really bad news - your
> drive is out of blocks to remap the bad ones to, and is basically busy
> dying.


Is the spontaneous creation of bad blocks just something that's going
to happen to all drives? If so, does this mean that allowing a drive
to become 100% full is never good policy?

I've taken a disk out of commision recently because it was unable to
remap its bad blocks. I'm wondering if its worth trying to remap them
after deleting a couple of directories. The disk is destined for the
trash but if I can remap the bad blocks, well it sure would beat re-
storing over a networked tape drive.


> 
> The answer appears to 'replace the drives'.
> 
> Peter
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