Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:54:34 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: John Almberg <jalmberg@identry.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: failure - write_dma issue Message-ID: <6C7B4740-6404-4385-8BD8-5D8F02BD1E48@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <91AA45AC-242D-4796-908E-302CE728AF75@identry.com> References: <91AA45AC-242D-4796-908E-302CE728AF75@identry.com>
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On Jan 6, 2012, at 10:03 AM, John Almberg wrote: > My FreeBSD servers have been quite reliable since I started using them 4 or 5 years ago, so I don't have much experience debugging them. > > Can anyone give me a hint about what might be wrong (I assume with the HD), and how/if it might be fixable? That's a typical sign of a disk failure. Whether it is just a bad sector, or whether the entire drive is toast is the question, and the smartctl utility from sysutils/smartmontools port will let you take a look and run drive self-tests to help answer it. Regards, -- -Chuck
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