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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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