SUMMARY: Repairing bad magnetic SCSI disk blocks?

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From: Kennedy Lemke
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:25

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A couple days I posted a note asking:

> Is there a utility I can use to map out the bad blocks on
> this disk?  It seems like /usr/etc/disk is the right utility,
> but the "bad" command only seems to work on opticals.  Is
> there another utility that will do this, or is my only option
> to replace the disk?  Thanks.

I received a few replies, one of which pointed me to ftp'ing
a program from NeXT.com.  The program is called "reasb" (for
"reassign block") and is anonymous ftp-able from next.com in
the directory /pub/Misc/Utilities/reasb.  I compiled and ran
the program and it seems to do the trick--that is, I no longer
am getting the scsi/"bread" error messages.

Thanks to Bob Brown (brown@quorum.com) for pointing the way to this.

				Kennedy Lemke
				Network and UNIX Systems Administrator
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