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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.magicnet.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Decoding and fixing MEDIUM ERRORs Date: 18 Apr 1997 20:02:16 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5j8k08$5mt@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5it0p4$37t$1@news.indigo.ie> 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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39325 Alan Judge <Alan.Judge@indigo.ie> wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to decode this particular error? I presume > the info is a block number in hex. Yes, the `info' field on a medium error is the block number in hex. > Also, is there a way to instruct the disk to replace the sector? You said you've already turned on ARRE. However, since it was an unrecovered read error, this didn't hit here. You can force the replacement by writing a sector of zeroes over it. -- 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. ;-)