From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 19:43:39 2006 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 2883516A403 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:43:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A726D43CA4 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:43:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 1064 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2006 18:43:31 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 18 Dec 2006 18:43:31 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 71C6828453; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:43:30 -0500 (EST) To: Marc van Woerkom References: <4586AE6D.3080704@fernuni-hagen.de> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:43:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4586AE6D.3080704@fernuni-hagen.de> (Marc van Woerkom's message of "Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:06:21 +0100") Message-ID: <444prtujsd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dealing with bad blocks on a hard disc 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: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:43:39 -0000 Marc van Woerkom writes: > Hi, > > my notebook's hard drive seems to be damaged: > > Dec 18 15:49:13 hokage kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA > status=51 error=40 LBA=9919567 > Dec 18 15:49:13 hokage kernel: > g_vfs_done():ad0s1f[READ(offset=1360723968, length=32768)]error = 5 > Dec 18 15:49:13 hokage kernel: vnode_pager_getpages: I/O read error > Dec 18 15:49:13 hokage kernel: vm_fault: pager read error, pid 1048 (cvsup) > Dec 18 15:49:17 hokage kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA > status=51 error=40 LBA=9919567 > Dec 18 15:49:17 hokage kernel: > g_vfs_done():ad0s1f[READ(offset=1360723968, length=32768)]error = 5 > Dec 18 15:49:17 hokage kernel: vnode_pager_getpages: I/O read error > Dec 18 15:49:17 hokage kernel: vm_fault: pager read error, pid 1048 (cvsup) > Dec 18 15:49:17 hokage kernel: pid 1048 (cvsup), uid 0: exited on signal 6 > > Is it possible to check the disc for bad blocks and to mark them as > unusable, thus allowing me continue using the hard drive? That happens automatically on a disk like this one. > Or what would you recommend? Try a manufacturer's utility, if you can find one, but generally when you reach the point where the OS is aware of disk block errors, it is continuing to lose them at a high (and accelerating) rate. Also consider the "SMART" utilities, but be prepared to buy a new disk. > Funny, I use FreeBSD about 10 years, this is the first time I have > that problem and it seems not to be addressed in the handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#INSTALL-BAD-BLOCKS