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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!world!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!usenet From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: HELP! fixing SCSI disk bad sectors ? Date: 19 Feb 1996 16:10:07 GMT Organization: ABWAM, Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4ga7d0$osa@hops.entertain.com> References: <4g917g$n8c@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp012.entertain.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 In article <4g917g$n8c@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>, tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan Ts'o) says: > > A 2Gb system SCSI disk on an Adaptec 2940, running Freebsd 2.1, has >developed at least one bad sector. The kernel prints the message: > >Feb 18 20:53:48 rna /kernel: sd0(ahc0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:333aca asc:11,0 Un >recovered read error field replaceable unit: d0 sks:80,29 > > How you read the above message ? Which are the bad sector numbers ? > I would rather not have to re-SCSI format this disk. What can I do ? >There should be a way to bad-sector replace the bad sectors with alternates ? >What utilities do I use ? Thanks. Please email. > These are good questions, and I am having the same problem on one of my systems... please post an answer if you find or know one. Thanks!