Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:37:49 -0500 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors Message-ID: <20070418193749.GB52435@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20070417130653.a07b6c1c.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <52060.69.129.174.18.1176828969.squirrel@email.polands.org> <20070417130653.a07b6c1c.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:06:53PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org>: > > > Hello, > > > > I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd > > like to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free > > of errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations. > > > > Check with the vendors, though. Many drive manufacturers have utilities > you can download specifically to check their drives. > Thanks, this seems like the way to go. I have a follow-up question if that's OK... I just used the "Drive Fitness Test" for IBM ATA drives on a particular disk and it finished without detecting errors. However, I see messages like this: Apr 16 22:51:44 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=1904935 Apr 16 22:52:02 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=8029031 Apr 16 23:35:30 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=2269287 Apr 16 23:37:22 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=3612007 Apr 16 23:48:17 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=1932123 Apr 17 21:12:25 seth kernel: ad3: FAILURE - SMART status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> LBA=12734209 Apr 17 21:12:25 seth kernel: ad3: FAILURE - SMART status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=4<ABORTED> LBA=12734214 in /var/log/messages. Do the kernel messages indicate a potential problem with this drive? Whom should I believe, FreeBSD or the disk diagnostics tool? -- Regards, Doug
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