From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 18:46:56 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6336D10656D6 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:46:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C7958FC16 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:46:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 30382 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2009 18:46:52 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Jan 2009 18:46:51 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 54A7050824; Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:46:49 -0500 (EST) To: Chris Jones References: <4974BE49.2080508@cjones.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:46:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4974BE49.2080508@cjones.org> (Chris Jones's message of "Mon\, 19 Jan 2009 10\:54\:17 -0700") Message-ID: <44ljt5olwm.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DUMP: read error: Bad address X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:46:56 -0000 Chris Jones writes: > I have an amd64 machine with two drives. I've got my system set up on > ad8, and I'm building a RAID0 array using gvinum that will span ad8 > and ad10. So for now, I have partitions on ad8 plus a set of volumes > on ad10 that I want to move all my data to. > > Today I was doing a test move of all the data, using dump | restore > like this: > > # dump -0aL -f - /var | ( cd /mnt/var && restore -rf - ) > > I got about a dozen messages like this: > > DUMP: read error from /dev/ad8s1d: Bad address: [block 10992192]: > count=5120 > > What is causing this message, and is it a cause for alarm? Here's my > bsdlabel for ad8s1: > > # /dev/ad8s1: > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 1048576 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 8 > b: 4123872 1048576 swap > c: 488279547 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, > don't edit > d: 104857600 5172448 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 > e: 2097152 110030048 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 > f: 376152347 112127200 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 > > Thanks in advance for any help. It could be a serious problem, but is not necessarily such. Can you use smarttools to query the disk firmware for *its* opinion? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/