On 30/03/07, Wood, Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [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
Thanks for pointing me to this port, I'll give it a try this evening.
When you have a suspected faulty hard drive, the last thing you want to do is use it. If you want additional confirmation (which I doubt you need as what you have printed is ample) then try Seatools from Seagate. It's free and runs of a CDROM. - Russell
Well, there isn't that much sensitive/important information on the disk, but moving the system over to a fresh disk save me the work of rebuilding the entire system again. And I was just at a local computer store yesterday, buying a bigger disk as a replacement for the disk this thread is about. So I'm quite lucky here. It's just a pity that I was planning a bigger HDD exchange session. The broken disk was supposed to end up a T21. Well, I guess I'll have to get another one. (Originally I didn't want to put more money in the old machine, but its Harddrive is severily damaged but the machine itself performs well for its owner.) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
