On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:06:53PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to "Doug Poland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hello, > > > > I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd > > like to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free > > of errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations. > > > > Check with the vendors, though. Many drive manufacturers have utilities > you can download specifically to check their drives. > Thanks, this seems like the way to go. I have a follow-up question if that's OK...
I just used the "Drive Fitness Test" for IBM ATA drives on a particular disk and it finished without detecting errors. However, I see messages like this: Apr 16 22:51:44 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=1904935 Apr 16 22:52:02 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=8029031 Apr 16 23:35:30 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=2269287 Apr 16 23:37:22 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=3612007 Apr 16 23:48:17 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=1932123 Apr 17 21:12:25 seth kernel: ad3: FAILURE - SMART status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> LBA=12734209 Apr 17 21:12:25 seth kernel: ad3: FAILURE - SMART status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> LBA=12734214 in /var/log/messages. Do the kernel messages indicate a potential problem with this drive? Whom should I believe, FreeBSD or the disk diagnostics tool? -- Regards, Doug _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
