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Date:      Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:59:34 +0200
From:      Guido Demmenie <rottweilertje@rottnic.nl>
To:        Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
Message-ID:  <B43905CF-7FE8-4A6F-8805-B15DE2C2EAB3@rottnic.nl>
In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0703291420y1ed229dej7e2808a859f6efa6@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <14989d6e0703291420y1ed229dej7e2808a859f6efa6@mail.gmail.com>

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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
www.rottnic.nl



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