On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:49:21PM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> 	Hello folks.  This is probably a FAQ, but I couldn't find it in the 
> mailing lists.  I have an IDE disk which is showing bad blocks i.e:
> 
> Jul  3 22:57:44 woody /netbsd: wd4a: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 142987762 of 142987762-142987824 (wd4 bn 142987762; cn 141852 tn 15 sn 1), retrying
> Jul  3 22:57:50 woody /netbsd: wd4a: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 142987762 of 142987762-142987824 (wd4 bn 142987762; cn 141852 tn 15 sn 1), retrying
> Jul  3 22:57:56 woody /netbsd: wd4a: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 142987762 of 142987762-142987824 (wd4 bn 142987762; cn 141852 tn 15 sn 1), retrying
> Jul  3 22:58:03 woody /netbsd: wd4a: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 142987762 of 142987762-142987824 (wd4 bn 142987762; cn 141852 tn 15 sn 1), retrying
> Jul  3 22:58:09 woody /netbsd: wd4a: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 142987783 of 142987762-142987824 (wd4 bn 142987783; cn 141852 tn 15 sn 22), retrying
> Jul  3 22:58:15 woody /netbsd: wd4a: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 142987783 of 142987762-142987824 (wd4 bn 142987783; cn 141852 tn 15 sn 22)
> 
> Since all of these block numbers are the same, I figured I could reassign
> the block from the disk's spare sectors.  However, I know of no command to
> do this with IDE disks.  Is there an equivalent of scsictl reassign <block
> nnumber> for IDE disks?

As far as I know there's no way to reassign a bad block on IDE disk (no IDE
command for that). The drive should do it by itself, if it can't maybe
there's no spare blocks left.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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