From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 6 13:14:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10652 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 13:14:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10605 for ; Wed, 6 May 1998 13:14:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA10922; Wed, 6 May 1998 13:14:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 13:14:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Mike Fisher cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hard drive difficulties In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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