Subject: Re: Trouble with PCI, VGA, 32Mbyte
To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@imsi.com>
List: current-users
Date: 06/10/1995 11:53:57
Peter Dufault writes:
> > Are you referring to the `verification' utility in the BIOS?  There's
> > certainly no facility in either host adapter to do remapping at run
> > time; it's the responsibility of either the device or the driver to do
> > that.
> 
> And many devices have it disabled by default and as shipped.  If you
> want the drive to remap on write failures or after read retries turn
> on AWRE and ARRE in mode page 1.  You can lift the code from FreeBSD
> sbin/scsi and lib/libscsi or write a utility using the user mode scsi
> ioctl.

It should be on by default in NetBSD. Since it apparently isn't at the
moment, does anyone have a utility that does what was just described?

Perry