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- From: jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura)
- Subject: Re: Problem with optical disk
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.153539.3096@shaman.com>
- Organization: The Shaman Group; A Division of Focal Point Computer, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov7.153607.205@gamelan>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 15:35:39 GMT
- Lines: 55
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- In article <1992Nov7.153607.205@gamelan> thf@zelator.in-berlin.de (Thomas Funke) writes:
- >I got the following message when I was writing a file on a OD:
- >Nov 6 20:16:09 gamelan mach: od0?: write failed (ECC) block 246880 phys block
- >246880 (19579:0:0)
- >Nov 6 20:17:24 gamelan last message repeated 2 times
- >Nov 6 20:17:58 gamelan mach: od0?: write failed (ECC) block 246880 phys block
- >246882 (19579:0:2)
- >
- >But the file was correct, thus I could read it back perfectly. Is this
- >something I have to worry about ?
- >
-
- What most probably happened was due to either dust on the OD platter or
- lens, the OD was not able to write to a block and failed, issuing the
- error messages. Subsequent to the write failure, the OD circuitry did
- a block remapping and wrote the data to a clean block somewhere else on
- the disk.
-
- You might be worried for two reasons: 1) Your OD drive might be failing
- which is due to the write failures, are you experiencing other problems
- with the drive such as irregular sounds? If so, worry about whether your
- drive is still under warranty.
-
- 2) You might worry that your OD disk itself is going bad. Check it for
- dust and follow standard CD practise when cleaning it (be VERY gentle,
- it is extremely easy to scratch). I would check for the number of alternate
- blocks you still have left to remap onto. Do this by logging in as root
- and running:
-
- shaman# disk -s /dev/rod0a
- disk name: Canon OMD-1
- disk type: removable_rw_optical
- disk statistics:
- 1 average ECC corrections per transfer
- 2 maximum ECC corrections per transfer
- 4 verify retries
- 1 verify failures
- 89/2512 ( 3.5%) alternate blocks used
-
-
- Check the last line. If it gets close to 80%, then copy all of the
- data on the OD onto another OD or your hard drive, then reformat
- the OD. Run disk again, make sure the # of alternate blocks is
- back down to 10% or so (or else your OD is permanently bad, throw
- it out) and recopy your stuff onto it.
-
-
- - Jiro Nakamura
- Technical Editor / NeXTwatch
-
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