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cc: mikael =?iso-8859-15?q?s=F6derholm?= <gnarlie@ihku.org>
Subject: Re: strange ata-hdd error
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On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 07:13, mikael s=F6derholm wrote:
> I get these errors after 2-7days of uptime:
>
> Jun 30 14:04:58 mutka kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries
> left) LBA=3D3012159 Jun 30 15:40:26 mutka kernel: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA
> status=3D51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=3D4<ABORTED> LBA=3D3011071 Jun 30 15:4=
0:31
> mutka kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left)
> LBA=3D3011199
>
> and then something like: 'removing ad0 from configuration' and I'm forced
> to reboot

Kind of sounds like your disk is dying..

What happens if you run smartctl on it=20
(from /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools)

Run (as root)
smartctl -a ad0

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