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Re: medium errors

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Farris)
Fri Sep 18 18:16:51 1998

To: Linux SCSI Mailing List <vger.rutgers.edu!linux-scsi@raven.cc.mala.bc.ca>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 17 Sep 1998 20:25:12 PDT."
             <Pine.LNX.3.96.980917202312.16743A-100000@sasami.anime.net> 
Date: 	Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:50:04 -0700
From: George Farris <george@ve7frg.gmsys.com>

> 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?


How did you set ARRE and AWRE?  I've been looking for a tool to do 
this.  I have an ASUS sc875 (ncr875) board but there aren't any 
utilities that come with the board to set these things.

-- 
George Farris - VE7FRG
George@gmsys.com



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