Thanks. I cloned the hard drive and replaced the old drive with the new drive this afternoon.
------- At 09:25 AM 8/30/2010, Ivan Voras wrote: >On 08/30/10 13:24, pe...@vfemail.net wrote: >> >>When I awoke this morning my FreeBSD box was frozen -- completely >>unresponsive at the console -- and displayed these messages on the console: >> >> ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 -resetting >> ata0: resetting devices >> ad0: removed from configuration >> done >> Aug 30 03:09:25 abc sm-mta 88427 xyz SYSERR(root): collect: Cannot >> write: ./xyz (fsync uid=o, gid=25): Device not configured >> >>The box has been in continuous operation for years, and I've never seen this >>behavior before. >> >>I rebooted the machine this morning and, thank God, it came back to life. >> >>Is this an early warning that the hard drive is failing and should be >>replaced this week? > >Very probably! > >>Is there anything else I should explore or do at this time? > >If not the drive, check drive cables, the power supply and motherboard/CPU >overheating. > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ------------------------------------------------- This message sent via VFEmail.net http://www.vfemail.net $14.95 Lifetime accounts - 1GB disk, No bandwidth quotas! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"