Hi Gang,

I have a test system (989/450, mpe/ix 7.0 pp2) that I have discovered a bad drive on (9gb in a HAJE Jamaica Enclosure).  In doing regular preventive maintenance (fscheck, dump-to-disk testing) on restart after a ctrl-b tc, I have a single disk within a mounted volume set that has given me a repair source error.  In preparation for replacing the disk with all the required rebuilding of everything, one of our team members working on this found they got a disk read error trying to do a backup.  In doing a variety fo other things, the system ended up totally hung, including the console.

I figured while doing a reboot I would use ODE and then DISKUTIL in the hopes that a read test of the drive would force it to spare out the bad sector(s) and could then reboot and do the much simpler procedure for replacing a mirrored disk if it still complained.

Unfortunately, though it found the bad sector(s) on the first pass, when I ran it a second time to insure it was now clean, I am still getting the read error in the same location.

Is there anything else I can do to force the bad sectors to get flagged and swapped out ?

TIA,
Dan

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