Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 23:38:12 -0800 From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Bad block - is my drive toast? Message-ID: <3C1C4F64.6030007@quack.kfu.com>
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My drive has a bad block. Modepage 0 says that I have read and write reallocation turned on. Modepage 8 says write caching is turned off. If I use dd with bs=1b and skip=n, I hear the nasty ka-click noise from the drive, then I get an error. If I dd if=/dev/zero of=disk bs=1b skip=n count=1 to attempt to overwrite the block, it *appears* to succeed, but if I then repeat the read, I continue to hear the ka-click sound of agony. Attempting to look at the grown defect list with camcontrol yields an error (it's an IBM Deskstar. I guess defects are top secret with those). Can anyone think of anything to do other than go buy a new drive (which I'm likely to do anyhow)? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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