Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 08:39:16 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Subject: Re: fixing bad SCSI sectors? Message-ID: <19971007083916.RV43899@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199710062300.XAA10829@veda.is>; from Adam David on Oct 6, 1997 23:00:38 %2B0000 References: <199710062300.XAA10829@veda.is>
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As Adam David wrote: > How do I start fixing this disk? By formatting it... > So, how do I repair the disk without completely reformatting it? Oh... Well, try to turn on AWRE/ARRE (mode page 1), and force a write to those blocks. The block numbers are mentioned in the `info' field. Note that they are absolute for the disk, i.e. use them as an lseek offset for /dev/rsd1. Alas, dd(1) doesn't lseek on raw devices when using "seek=". Hmm, our dd man page suggests it were seeking on anything but tape devices... Try it before using. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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