Keep your disk cool. If you're getting MEDIUM errors, you're disks are getting
toasted.
I'm also in SF, and I plain mostly have been shut down the last two days.
> Hello Freebsders,
>
> I've been using FreeBSD over the last 6 years (since I switched from
> NetBSD) to run a small ISP out of my basement.
>
> I've had about six disk crashes in as many years and still don't know how
> to work reliably with them.
>
> I have installed UPS boxes on each machine and that seems to have lowered
> the incidence of failure, but failures still happen; yesterday during our
> heat wave in the San Francisco area (possible brownouts also) I had
> another.
>
> OK, so you have to expect these things; but I never seem to find an easy
> way to recover these systems. The only thing that I've seen work has been
> to mount the disk on another system, back it up, reformat the drive, copy
> things back over and find out what was trashed. THERE MUST BE A BETTER
> WAY.
>
> It seems like SCSI systems can't use the bad144 program. They are supposed
> to autorecover on bad sectors, but every system that I've had to recover
> seems to be in a state where the bad sectors aren't remapping. I've tried
> buying top of the line hardware, and it does work faster, but no more
> reliably than the cheap stuff. Once you get in this state it is difficult
> to mount the partitions so as to recover what is there.
>
> I really need some good advice here. Do I need to buy RAID hardware for
> each and every server in my network? Is there some way to force the SCSI
> system to remap bad drives?
>
> The error I'm getting is:
> MEDIUM ERROR info:1010f asc:14,1
>
> My configuration is:
> 1) Pentium-S 100 Mz
> 2) 128M
> 3) Adaptec 2940 Ultra/Ultra SCSI with Bios 1.25
> 4) Seagate ST3437 4GB
> 5) FreeBSD 3.4
>
> Any advice on how to efficiently bring my server back up or how I can
> reengineer my system to avoid this in the future, will be greatly
> appreciated.
> --
> Edward Elhauge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Uncanny Inc., San Francisco
> "War is like love; it always finds a way." -- Bertold Brecht
>
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