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From: kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How do I mark bad blocks on my disk?
Date: 10 Jun 1996 19:36:12 GMT
Organization: Applied Physics Laboratory
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Message-ID: <4phtfc$ghj@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
References: <31bc6265.0@jupiter.os.com>
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Craig Shrimpton wrote in article <31bc6265.0@jupiter.os.com> :
>
>Greetings,
>
>I have a scsi disk that has some bad blocks. The disk "hoses" on FreeBSD but
>works fine on NT server. I assume this is due to NTs marking of bad blocks.
>How do I do this in FreeBSD?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Craig
>
>
scsi -f /dev/rsd1c -e -m 1
You should see the following as the first two lines:
AWRE (Auto Write Reallocation Enbld): 1
ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld): 1
If the 1's are actually 0's, then change them to 1's.
Steve
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