From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 7:33:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF1737B405 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 07:33:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greid@FreeBSD.org) Received: from sobek.openirc.co.uk ([62.252.9.90]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20010612143308.HNG290.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.openirc.co.uk>; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:33:08 +0100 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:32:37 +0100 (BST) From: George Reid X-Sender: greid@sobek.openirc.co.uk To: Nick Barnes Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: interpreting UFS hard error messages In-Reply-To: <397.992339270@thrush.ravenbrook.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Nick Barnes wrote: > 1. How should I interpret UFS hard error messages? The message you quoted was an ATA hard read error. You should interpret this as "time to buy a new drive". Trying to mark the relevant parts as bad is pretty pointless; the fact that you're getting these errors means that the drive is dying and that more are going to appear anyway. -- +-------------------+---------------------+ | George Reid | FreeBSD Committer | | +44 7740 197460 | greid@FreeBSD.org | +-------------------+---------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message