Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 13:14:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Mike Fisher <mfisher@harborcom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hard drive difficulties Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980506131335.10811U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980506144453.441A-100000@d117-h041.rh.rit.edu>
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On Wed, 6 May 1998, Mike Fisher wrote: > Hello. I am running a Micropolis Stinger on an Adaptec 2940A SCSI > controller. Until recently (I'm assuming within the last day), I have had > no complaints. However, I noticed today when my security message came > through that there were some hard drive problems...Here is what the error > looks like: > > sd0(ahc0:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:0x565d82 asc:1 1,0 Unrecovered read > error, FAILURE > Well, either your disk is spinning down and going south or it's developing bad sectors. I suspect you had better ready a new drive. > Is there any way that I can take care of this short of doing a newfs? I'd > assume that it won't write to the problematic regions since it would > timeout, but I'll still have this problem whenever I do an intensive find > (or the security script runs). It'll take more than a newfs -- you need to lock that bad sector out. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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