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- From: mfaurot@bogart.uucp (Michael Faurot)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: Help, tbtape is trashing my rootdbs!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.125812.117@bogart.uucp>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 12:58:12 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.171459.21988@informix.com>
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- davek@informix.com (David Kosenko) writes:
-
- : I will speculate that the reason the second database seems to "cause" the
- : problem is that the space allocated for the tables in that database contain
- : the problem area. Since tbtape will only try to read allocated space, it
- : does not encounter the problem until the second database is created. I am
- : not sure why the bad block was not encountered at the create time - it must
- : be that the space allocated is not all read at the create time.
- :
- : What you should do is run a low-level disk surface check on the devices you
- : are using for your chunks. Typically, this problem is caused by bad blocks
- : present on the device.
-
- I suspected bad blocks on the device as well. I haven't low leveled
- the device just yet, but I figured I could easily find out if in fact
- there were bad blocks by using dd. Using dd I had it read the entire
- surface area and never got a hick-up. Since OnLine consistently has
- this problem during back-up I would assume that dd should have a
- problem reading the device as well--but that wasn't the case.
-
- Is my logic flawed in assuming dd would report some sort of error
- condition if it couldn't read some blocks on the partition?
-
- : As per bringing your system back up after a "bad block experience": if you
- : edit your tbconfig file and set MIRROR to 1, you will be able to restart
- : your system even though the chunk is marked as down.
-
- Thanks for the tip!
-
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