From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 29 21:20:32 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DACE316A401 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:20:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F3D413C44B for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:20:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k27so296400nfc for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:20:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=e0cec31gavu35V2h25ctyfsnXDAg5rxDrV1FhCnAbNG7Q+GgL+ODCoNIlX24c8eh0A//0Ibr852tWKZvpuApf9Q6Ju3Y+FKXfPGjDIBGVbi4zfPLQaQqYNDfBS/5QsyrO1OtRTAm81gqdoAdrS0PkpHlCnuw9wYiLaEA7Kp0Jko= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=rmjqF6fsGN3cbj3OblJCzKcWZbI4PpNUicYzJ2okhouZG1dDr+1Pz/xsyCM4t1iS0Cy3BYptvgkqFt9SCcdlMS3Uvr3cZZYgs2J+t7cOMBhdRkgdaclGpgBYzyySWrZDCEkc1WfSixn0tBBwF3euyq7zwb76kQ0r4uWLh+PrWAI= Received: by 10.82.146.14 with SMTP id t14mr2348749bud.1175203230388; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.153.6 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <14989d6e0703291420y1ed229dej7e2808a859f6efa6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:20:30 +0200 From: "Christian Walther" To: "FreeBSD Users Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:20:32 -0000 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 Mar 29 21:04:42 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=13574483 Mar 29 21:12:25 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=2665375 Mar 29 21:12:56 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=38935999 Mar 29 21:14:53 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=2170339 Mar 29 21:15:36 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=51982907 Mar 29 21:23:45 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=415 Mar 29 21:24:57 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=41387775 Mar 29 21:25:27 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=38754719 Mar 29 21:26:02 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=53056287 Mar 29 21:29:03 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=34612991 Mar 29 21:38:25 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=8346079 Mar 29 21:52:59 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=4663 This is a IBM Thinkpad T23 with the original disk installed. $ uname -a FreeBSD pixie 6.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Sat Mar 24 02:43:20 CET 2007 root@pixie:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 I've searched the net to gather some evidence wet wether this is a sign of a dying hard disk, but I'm still not sure. Some postings state that this kind of message isn't that bad as long as there are retries left and suggest a configuration error. Well, the Laptop had it's own kernel configuration until recently (I forgot to save some configuration files before I installed DesktopBSD) so I kind tell wether the appearance of these messages relates to the new installation in any way. Is it possible that this is a configuration issue, or should I get a replacement for the disk? Christian