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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to reassign SCSI blocks? Date: 16 May 1996 11:54:05 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4nf50t$22s@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4n5l3c$82d@clarknet.clark.net> <4n6ulh$74c@itchy.serv.net> <4nb2rr$20d@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4ndl1d$962@itchy.serv.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) wrote: > I did this ; AWRE and AARE were both set to '1' on the disk. it's still > complaining about a medium error, info:15c040, asc:aa,0. I've once observed this on a Seacrate disk i own. It started to get a couple more dead blocks then, and finally bothered me enough. Apparently, the drive ran out of remap sectors. I decided to backup, and scsiformat it again. Since this day, i've never had any problems again. After all, Seagate doesn't have the best reputation, but it seems that they are not cheating, and you can at least repair the drive again. scsiformat is in /sbin on any system younger than the latest release. Missing it, you can use: scsi -f /dev/rsd0ctl -s 3600 -c "4 0 0 0 0 0" -- 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. ;-)