how do I tell Aix about bad blocks?
John Scott McCauley Jr.
jsm at lyman.pppl.gov
Sat Jan 12 01:13:10 AEST 1991
Setup: RS/6000, AIX 3.1, and two Wren external scsi drives (ST47467N aka
Wren Runner II I think)
Problem: bad blocks:
system hangs frequently (read errors on paging?)
errpt gives many 'DISK ERRORS'
rdump complains of blocks it can't read
Other symptoms:
certify from concurrent diag: fails 10% though the disk complaining
of too many unrecoverable errors.
certify from diskettes: succeeds; no errors at all detected!
format: fails immediately; complains of hardware error.
I suspect that somehow AIX wasn't told of the defect list. I also
have heard that diag can't format non-ibm hard disks. I could format
the disks on a Sparcstation, but then how does AIX find the defect list?
Any pointers welcome,
Scott
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