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Re: medium errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Fri Sep 18 19:19:26 1998
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 13:58:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
cc: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>,
Linux SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199809182050.QAA07973@dcl.MIT.EDU>
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> 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.
> You have to enter logical *block* numbers --- not sector numbers. If
> you entered sector numbers then ext2 will map out the wrong blocks....
I used the output from badblocks and fed it into e2fsck.
I also used e2fsck -c.
Linux still seems rather insistent on hitting the bad blocks. I think
e2fsck hits them too.
Or maybe its that blocks straddle multiple bad sectors on the scsi drive
or something.
-Dan
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