From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 11 01:07:46 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54F116A407 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:07:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C32C13C46B for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:07:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from coolf89ea26645 (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id l1B17jx32099; Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:07:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Message-ID: <002101c74d78$d81493f0$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Marc G. Fournier" , "John Nielsen" , References: <5D4377994F77F6A6C215D198@ganymede.hub.org><20070210070020.GP37689@dan.emsphone.com><0121884CDA5AC278CD6A7D52@ganymede.hub.org><200702101105.36039.lists@jnielsen.net> <1CEB5BF1B5111F6CAA3843A9@ganymede.hub.org> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:06:20 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 Cc: Dan Nelson Subject: Re: Bad sector on drive ... 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: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 01:07:47 -0000 If your going to continue to use the disk at least turn on S.M.A.R.T. in the BIOS (if it's not on already) and load one of the S.M.A.R.T.-aware tools in the ports directories (like smartmontools) to keep an eye on it. I still think though that it's just a matter of time before you have more problems. Disks are so cheap I can't understand why anyone would want to try nursing one along that's going bad these days. Ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: "John Nielsen" ; Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" ; "Dan Nelson" Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 3:17 PM Subject: Re: Bad sector on drive ... > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Didn't work, ended up newfs'ng the file system, since the data on the drive is > recreatable, and seems to have worked fine ... > > the error I was getting was when fsck'ng, so suspect that a file got written > over top of the bad sector and was causng the problem ... > > - --On Saturday, February 10, 2007 11:05:35 -0500 John Nielsen > wrote: > > > On Saturday 10 February 2007 09:47, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >> --On Saturday, February 10, 2007 01:00:21 -0600 Dan Nelson > >> > >> wrote: > >> > In the last episode (Feb 10), Marc G. Fournier said: > >> >> Short of a reformat, any way of marking the following as bad? :( > >> >> > >> >> Feb 10 02:27:20 ganymede kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA > >> >> status=51 error=40 LBA=176887263 Feb > >> >> 10 02:27:25 ganymede kernel: ad4: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry > >> >> left) LBA=176887324 Feb 10 02:27:30 ganymede kernel: ad4: TIMEOUT - > >> >> READ_DMA retrying (0 retries left) LBA=176887324 Feb 10 02:27:35 > >> >> ganymede kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out LBA=176887324 > >> > > >> > Try writing to the block causing the error, using dd and the seek= > >> > option; if the write succeeds, you're done (and the drive will have > >> > either reused the block or reassigned it to a spare). 176887324 If it > >> > doesn't succeed, copy what you can off the drive and toss it, since all > >> > its spares are used up. > >> > > >> > I think LBA numbers map directly to seek= values assuming you keep > >> > bs=512 and access /dev/ad4 . I'd try reading the bad block with dd to > >> > verify it's the right one before doing a write, though. > >> > >> 'k, how do you use dd to write to a specific sector? > >> > >> dd of=/dev/ad4 seek=176887324 bs=512 if=/dev/null > > > > dd of=/dev/ad4 seek=176887324 bs=512 count=1 if=/dev/zero > > > > JN > > > > > > - ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org > Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQFFzlJ14QvfyHIvDvMRAicNAJ9Fvx3B7p8ibsne3lV+HSd6rnkLEwCgmKBz > IsS5cm2DUlwcC3fKbnyiT9c= > =G+Wn > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >