Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message & marking of same

2004-08-07 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: > > >>>Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves. > > >> > > >>Umm - not quite, right? That is, if a block "goes bad" and you get a > > >>read error, the drive isn't going to do any "substituting" at that > > >>point. You'll just continue to get the read error

Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message & marking of same

2004-08-06 Thread David Schultz
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004, Gary Corcoran wrote: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > >In the last episode (Aug 06), Gary Corcoran said: > > > >>Mike Meyer wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves. > >> > >>Umm - not quite, right? That is, if a block "goes bad" and you

Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message & marking of same

2004-08-06 Thread Gary Corcoran
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 06), Gary Corcoran said: Mike Meyer wrote: Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves. Umm - not quite, right? That is, if a block "goes bad" and you get a read error, the drive isn't going to do any "substituting" at that point. Y

Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message & marking of same

2004-08-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 06), Gary Corcoran said: > Mike Meyer wrote: > > >Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves. > > Umm - not quite, right? That is, if a block "goes bad" and you get a > read error, the drive isn't going to do any "substituting" at that > point. You

Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message & marking of same

2004-08-06 Thread Gary Corcoran
Mike Meyer wrote: Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves. Umm - not quite, right? That is, if a block "goes bad" and you get a read error, the drive isn't going to do any "substituting" at that point. You'll just continue to get the read error if you try to access (read)

Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message & marking of same

2004-08-06 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, DH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > I'm reposting this because I've not rec'd a response from the freebsd-fs mailing > list yet and I need an answer fairly quickly. Thanks be any who can help out! The correct place to send this is freebsd-questions. I've added that to the lis

Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message & marking of same

2004-08-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 03:40, DH wrote: > I've begun rec'ing these error messages: > > ad0s1a: hard error reading fsbn 141935 of 70848 - 71103 (ad0s1 bn 141935; > cn 8 tn 212 sn 59 ) status=59 error=40 > > Got about 7 of these with varying values. > > I

Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message & marking of same

2004-08-05 Thread DH
Good afternoon; I'm reposting this because I've not rec'd a response from the freebsd-fs mailing list yet and I need an answer fairly quickly. Thanks be any who can help out! Please CC me as I am not a member of this list, thank you. DH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 11:58: