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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
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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

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