From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 30 07:15:22 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 AD56B16A406 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:15:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rottweilertje@rottnic.nl) Received: from mailservice.tudelft.nl (mailservice.tudelft.nl [130.161.131.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43BA213C4B0 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:15:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rottweilertje@rottnic.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amavis (Postfix) with ESMTP id 566EE222F10; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:15:21 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tudelft.nl X-Spam-Score: -4.389 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.389 tagged_above=-99 required=5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_00=-2.599, PROLO_LEO3=0.01] Received: from mailservice.tudelft.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tudelft.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id ibH7+ZYnNTrr; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:15:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp-a.tudelft.nl (smtp-a.tudelft.nl [130.161.129.18]) by mx0.tudelft.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 903D3222F24; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:15:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [145.94.245.80] (wlan-145-94-245-80.wlan.tudelft.nl [145.94.245.80]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp-a.tudelft.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E87D4F1A4F; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:15:16 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: References: <14989d6e0703291420y1ed229dej7e2808a859f6efa6@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Guido Demmenie Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:15:19 +0200 To: "Wood, Russell" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions Subject: Re: 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: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:15:22 -0000 On Mar 30, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Wood, Russell wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- >> questions@freebsd.org] 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 > > When you have a suspected faulty hard drive, the last thing you > want to > do is use it. > - Russell Can you tell me why? -- Guido