[4708] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: medium errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Fri Sep 18 02:41:04 1998
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 20:25:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
cc: Linux SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980917180605.32302Q-100000@tarkin.fdt.net>
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Jon Lewis wrote:
> I'm burning in some Micropolis 1991's and of course one has to be giving
> me a hard time. I have ARRE and AWRE enabled, so this shouldn't be
> happening. My questions are...does the fact that these read errors
> happened mean that these sectors have been spared out? If not, and I want
> to try to keep using this disk, can I feed the sector numbers to e2fsck
> and spare these sectors out? If so, do I use the first sector numbers or
> the absolute sectors?
FWIW I get the exact same errors under various other scsi disks. Telling
ext2 to map them out as bad doesn't seem to prevent it from still hitting
them. No idea why. I don't think ive ever had ext2 badblock mapping work
correctly on any drives -- IDE or SCSI.
-Dan
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