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From: zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to reassign SCSI blocks?
Date: 15 May 1996 15:15:09 -0700
Organization: ServNet Internet Services, Seattle, WA
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In article <4nb2rr$20d@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>zeno@serv.net (Sean T. Lamont) wrote:
>
>> I have the following error on one block of one of my disks:
>
>Most drives ship with automatic sector reallocation disabled.  You can
>use scsi(8) with the -e option to change this (i think it's mode page
>#1 -- watch out for AWRE and ARRE).

I did this ; AWRE and AARE were both set to '1' on the disk. it's still
complaining about a medium error, info:15c040, asc:aa,0.

It looks to me like the scsi utility could be used to manually reassign
the block, but it's not clear how.






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