Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:20:59 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does 'ad0: HARD READ ERROR' imply impending disk failure? Message-ID: <20010622122059.S57186@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4544.10.0.0.3.993111388.squirrel@grover.logicsquad.net>; from paulh@logicsquad.net on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 05:46:28PM %2B0930 References: <4544.10.0.0.3.993111388.squirrel@grover.logicsquad.net>
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On Thursday, 21 June 2001 at 17:46:28 +0930, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > > Hello, > > I began to get a series of these errors in /var/log/messages this afternoon: > > Jun 21 16:35:42 grover /kernel: ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 13634000 > status=59 error=40 > Jun 21 16:35:46 grover /kernel: ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 13634000 > status=59 error=40 > > All up I've had about 20 at various different blocks. Ironically, they > started when I began exercising the disk by tarring up parts of it for > backup. > > Now, I'm happy to buy a new disk at a moment's notice, but could someone > just confirm my fear that this disk is on the way out before I spend the > money? ie. it couldn't be due to, say, a bad IDE cable or a misconfigured > kernel config option, could it? This message is pretty specific. It comes from the disk, not the IDE controller, so you can assume that it's really a disk problem. It's possible that a low-level format could recover something, though. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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