Mark Hounschell wrote:
>
> kris buggenhout wrote:
> >
> > Mark Hounschell wrote:
> > >
> > > Seth Mos wrote:
> > > >
> > > > At 11:46 17-5-2001 +0200, kris buggenhout wrote:
> > > > >it looks like a scsi error .. but when I do the same test on the same
> > > > >drive with ext2 i get no error.
> > > >
> > > > ext2 probably handles bad blocks better. The XFS filesystem shuts down
> > > > on
> > > > error. Ext2 may stay up and note that the sector is moved and the data
> > > > is ok.
> > > > It might be possible that xfs could be made to respect this re
> > > > allocation
> > > > of a bad sector and perhaps not shut down.
> > >
> > > The scsi drives "page-1 mode-select" error recovery page should be set
> > > to not
> > > report recovered errors. This can be changed with any decent scsi disc
> > > utility
> > where can I find that for linux? or do I have to install windows to only
> > change that..?
>
> Most if not all of them I've seen are in the bios of the scsi
> controller. But there
> is one for linux called scsiinfo. It is in this package
> "scsi-1.7_2.22_000630-0 ".
> It came with my SuSE dis. Be sure to read the man pages CAREFULLY before
> using.
> I havn't actually used this one but looks like it will do it. Again be
> CAREFULL.
> Misuse could cause lost data....
Try scsi-config. It's better. It's from xscsi-1.7_2.22_000630-0 package.
Don't forget... BE CAREFULL.....
>
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> Mark Hounschell
> dmarkh@xxxxxxxxxx
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