From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 03:01:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 603E916A4CF for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 03:01:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from delight.idiom.com (delight.idiom.com [216.240.32.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6A443D31 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 03:01:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by delight.idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF17433E49 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 20:01:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mired.org (mwm@idiom [216.240.32.1]) by idiom.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with SMTP id i762ZImp068270 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 19:35:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 8505 invoked by uid 100); 6 Aug 2004 02:35:17 -0000 Received: by guru.mired.org (tmda-sendmail, from uid 100); Thu, 05 Aug 2004 21:35:17 -0500 (CDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16658.61027.827002.280086@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 21:35:15 -0500 To: DH In-Reply-To: <20040804181012.71953.qmail@web20423.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040804181012.71953.qmail@web20423.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-Primary-Address: mwm@mired.org X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.0.3 (Seattle Slew) From: Mike Meyer X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 11:52:18 +0000 cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: How to read bad blocks error message & marking of same X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 03:01:32 -0000 In <20040804181012.71953.qmail@web20423.mail.yahoo.com>, DH typed: > I'm reposting this because I've not rec'd a response from the freebsd-fs mailing list yet and I need an answer fairly quickly. Thanks be any who can help out! The correct place to send this is freebsd-questions. I've added that to the list, and pointed replies there as well. > I've begun rec'ing these error messages: > > ad0s1a: hard error reading fsbn 141935 of 70848 - 71103 (ad0s1 bn 141935; cn 8 tn 212 sn 59 ) status=59 error=40 > > Got about 7 of these with varying values. > > I ran Seagate's diag utility and it reported only 1 bad sector (# 71099 ). Unfortunately ad0s1a happens to my / dir so allowing the utility to write zeros to that block hasn't sat well with me. > > Sooo - if some one could explain the exact meaning of my error message & point me in the right direction to use these values to fix my disk problem I'd greatly appreciate it > (with many many many thanks in advance :) ) Modern drives deal with bad block substitution all by themselves. By the time you've got blocks going bad that the OS sees, the drive is in really sad shape. You should replace it with a new drive ASAP. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.