From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 29 17:57:29 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 F00D916A506 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:57:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB12F43DC9 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:54:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin05-en2 [10.13.10.150]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout15/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id kATHseG8018244; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:54:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from [17.214.13.96] (a17-214-13-96.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin05/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id kATHscff023577; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:54:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <009401c7136d$0417a550$6501a8c0@GRANT> References: <009401c7136d$0417a550$6501a8c0@GRANT> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:54:37 -0800 To: Grant Peel X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CAM Status SCSI Error 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: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:57:30 -0000 On Nov 28, 2006, at 8:15 PM, Grant Peel wrote: > Could not get anywhere with fsck. Kept Saying 'rerun fsck manually' > which I did. > > Got the thing up anmd running using the SCSI verify media Utility > in the bios. showned one error when it ran, maked the block as bad. > > fsck shows all f/s clean now. > > LOts of verbage found on google, but nothing that explained > anything well. > > Disk is about 2 years old, not under heavy load.FreeBSD 6.1 > > Should I replace? (Seagate Cheetah SCSI 3 73 GIG). > > or is this 'normal' once in a while? While bad sectors occur over time, they aren't normal. You should install smartmontools (assuming you run FreeBSD 5.x or later) and have it run a drive self-test, and monitor the counts of bad sectors being reallocated and other errors. If you don't see anything bad and no additional bad sectors appear over the next few weeks, you can probably live with it as an isolated incident. Of course, you should also be prepared to recover your data from backups in case the drive decides to die completely, as it may do just that... -- -Chuck