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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Disk question Date: 15 Jul 1996 12:25:07 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4sddb3$fne@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31ea0005.19199613@pandora.digitaladvantage.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E zeeb@digitaladvantage.net (Russ Panula) wrote: > sd2(ahc1:0:0) RECOVERED ERROR info:6542dc asc:17,2 Recovered data with > positive head offset sks:80,2 > > sd2(ahc1:0:0) RECOVERED ERROR info:569e47 asc:17,1 Recovered data with > retries sks:80,1 > ,retries:3 You must ask the vendor of your disk for the exact meaning. It looks like some sectors of your disk are slowly going bad. This is a natural effect for magnetic media, you should better turn automatic bad-sector remaping on. It can be found on mode page 1, the command is described in the EXAMPLES section of the man page for scsi(8). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)