From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 19:54:35 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6665F106566C for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 19:54:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout021.mac.com (asmtpout021.mac.com [17.148.16.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CEAB8FC08 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2012 19:54:35 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (unknown [17.209.4.71]) by asmtp021.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-23.01 (7.0.4.23.0) 64bit (built Aug 10 2011)) with ESMTPSA id <0LXE00CW97AYD380@asmtp021.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:54:35 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.5.7110,1.0.211,0.0.0000 definitions=2012-01-05_05:2012-01-05, 2012-01-05, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1201060223 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <91AA45AC-242D-4796-908E-302CE728AF75@identry.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:54:34 -0800 Message-id: <6C7B4740-6404-4385-8BD8-5D8F02BD1E48@mac.com> References: <91AA45AC-242D-4796-908E-302CE728AF75@identry.com> To: John Almberg X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: failure - write_dma issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:54:35 -0000 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