On Mar 30, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Wood, Russell wrote:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guido Demmenie
Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 3:00 PM
To: Christian Walther
Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions
Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Christian Walther wrote:
Hi,
I'm seeing a lot of the following messages lately:
Mar 29 21:02:01 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
retry left) LBA=13554983
Mar 29 21:02:34 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
retry left) LBA=35376691
You also might want to give smartmontools a try. This can be found
in the portscollection (sysutils/smartmontools). This will query
the SMART tool built in most IDE drives. You can let the harddrive
do a selfcheck. And gather some statistics from your drive.
--
Guido
When you have a suspected faulty hard drive, the last thing you
want to
do is use it.
- Russell
Can you tell me why?
--
Guido
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