On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:21:39AM +1100, Andrew Cutler wrote:
> Unfortunately the answer presented itself very soon after posting the
> message.
>
> I pulled the hard drive out of the box, and tried to format it in a
> Windows machine. It occurred to me that the drive had not been formated
> and
Unfortunately the answer presented itself very soon after posting the
message.
I pulled the hard drive out of the box, and tried to format it in a
Windows machine. It occurred to me that the drive had not been formated
and therefore had not had data written to all parts of the disk.
Half way thr
I recently built a FreeBSD 4.7 Release file server that has a brand new
80GB Wester Digital 7200RPM drive in it. Yesterday the box suffered two
power outages and a possible powersurge.
Today I decided that it would be a good idea to check on the state of
the file system and the result is attache
>> 2) Are there any BSD tools for reading the SMART data off the Hard Disk
>> so that I can see whether it is about to fail or currently experiencing
>> HW failure. Any other ways to check for bad sectors?
>>
JH> I thought that someone asked this same questions a few days ago, but I
JH> can't fin
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Vinco Maldini wrote:
>
> > 1) What does the result below mean? (Is my drive failing? Why can't I
> > clean the FS?)
> >
> [ ... snip ... ]
> > CANNOT READ: BLK 152744928
> > UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
> [ ... snip ... ]
> >
> > THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT B
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Vinco Maldini wrote:
> 1) What does the result below mean? (Is my drive failing? Why can't I
> clean the FS?)
>
[ ... snip ... ]
> CANNOT READ: BLK 152744928
> UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
[ ... snip ... ]
>
> THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 152744946,
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I recently built a FreeBSD 4.7 Release file server that has a brand new
80GB Wester Digital 7200RPM drive in it. Yesterday the box suffered two
power outages and a possible powersurge.
Today I decided that it would be a good idea to check on the state of
the file system and the result is attached
