Re: 2048 bytes/sector MOD + 2.2.1ac6

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Mon, 1 Mar 1999 11:01:19 +1100

Alan Cox writes:
> > (albeit slow). But as soon as I do a 'mke2fs -c -m0 -b 2048' on my MOD
> > medium, and start a 'copy -av ~ /mod', after a couple minutes, the kernel
> > spits out things like this
> >
> > Feb 28 19:36:28 debian kernel: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 2, lun
> > 0, CDB: Write (6) 00 00 00 04 00
>
> Medium error; Thats "disk sucks"

Medium error: backup your data *NOW* and get a replacement drive. The
end is nigh.

> > Why does the write reallocation fail? why are there medium errors on the
> > drive, when neither badblocks (mke2fs -c) nor SCSI BIOS low level format

Who cares? It's time to backup your data and replace the drive. That's
just happened to me, and I'm not turning on the drive again until I'm
ready to back it up or copy onto a replacement.

Yep, I'm annoyed. It's only 2.5 years old, and I don't need this crap
right now.

Regards,

Richard....

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