Subject: Re: HDD re-mapping blues
To: Port-Amd64@Netbsd. Org <port-amd64@NetBSD.org>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
List: port-amd64
Date: 03/10/2006 10:53:57
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 10:37:20PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 09:40:55AM -0500, Derrick Lobo wrote:
> > Heres a response from HP tech support...
> >
> > Quote:
> > It is uncertain if the adaptec driver for NetBSD can handle the re-mapping
> > or handle a burst of re-mappings. It is suspect that the NetBSD adaptec
> > driver is having trouble remapping unreadable hard drive blocks. The driver
>
> It's not a RAID controller, so I don't know why it should be the adapter's
> job to remap bad sectors. The drive could do it in the case of a recovered
> error, but it seems our scsictl command doesn't know how to change the
> mode page for this.
Would PR 29165 help?
Pavel Cahyna