Bad-block replacement failure

From: Chris Ruhnke <ruhnke_at_us.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:15:19 -0500

I had an AdvFS domain panic last night on a domain on an RZ29B (4.1 GB).
On examination of the error log file I find a CAM SCSI entry that says
" bbr_write: No spares available". I interpret this to mean "bad block
replacement
write: There are no more replacement blocks available."

I presume this means my disk is getting sick. Fortunately this is a
scratch device and
I can work around this issue.

To all you hardware geeks out there:

Is there a way for me to re-format this disk and recover the bad-block
replacement pool?

--CHRis

Chris H. Ruhnke
Systems Management Integration Professional
Mid-Range Technical Services
IBM Global Services
St. Louis, MO

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