[1137] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: medium error, what next?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (owner-linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu)
Fri Dec 20 10:45:44 1996
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 16:41:49 +0100
From: owner-linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
To: srb@cuci.nl
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, ncr53c810@colorado.edu
In-reply-to: <199612201118.MAA06113@hera.cuci.nl> (srb@cuci.nl)
This is on a 2.0.27 machine, under ELF, using the BSD-ncr driver.
What should I do at this point (beside panic :-)?
How do I tell the drive to remap this particular sector? Or, alternately,
maybe I should make Linux skip it?
Maybe setting the AWRE/ARRE (?) bits of the corresponding modepage with scsiinfo
and (possibly) the number of retries may help. These bits are controlling the
automatic remapping during write (AWRE) and read (ARRE) access, and are, at
least for the drives I have seen, (some older seagate and some quantum fireballs)
normally disabled. For more information lock at the references (SCSI 2 standard)
cited in the SCSI-Programming-HOWTO.
Anyone who can spare some words of wisdom here?
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