[2615] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: SCSI medium error
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc SCHAEFER)
Sun Oct 12 15:20:35 1997
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 19:37:05 +0200 (MEST)
From: Marc SCHAEFER <schaefer@alphanet.ch>
To: David J Brenneman <brennemd@emu.edu>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <270CC340D2B@aslan.emu.edu>
On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, David J Brenneman wrote:
> Thanks for the help, what I want to know is, is the disk going to
> crash completely and unrecoverably, soon? some opinions I have heard
> seem to indicate this... I have heard that the Quantum Fireball has
> a relatively short life expectancy.
Normally not. It is possible that bad blocks create over time.
Usually they should be replaced. Maybe the scsiinfo command
can do replacements, I do not know, sorry. Or maybe the
kernel can be triggered to do automatic reassign blocks ?
I personnally, when I encounter a bad block, use the badblock
command or the host adapter facilities to scan the disk and
replace all bad blocks.
