[4430] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Bad blocks: How many?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Tue Jul 21 23:17:46 1998
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:11:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: "Dr. Michael Weller" <eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de>
cc: Tim Robinson <timr@sykes.demon.co.uk>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.95.980721190045.88120E-100000@werner.exp-math.uni-essen.de>
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Dr. Michael Weller wrote:
> > I've ever seen scsi-config report anything in the grown list. Just
> > recently, I was setting up some Micropolis 1991's and 3 were "bad". 1
> > could not be formatted without lots of errors locking up the system. 2
> > were formattable but generated unrecoverable read errors when tested. I
> ---------------------------------------
>
> Uhmm.. Did you actually enable disk certify (verifying) with the format
> command? Well, I think it is default anyhow. Nevertheless it is up to the
You mean mke2fs -c? Probably not on the first format. I know I did later
after I knew I had problems, and after I turned on AWRE and ARRE.
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