From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 11 17:19:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles535.castles.com [208.214.165.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 620B5151A4 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:19:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00613; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:22:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912120122.RAA00613@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: joeo@nks.net Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Errors from the ata disk driver In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 Dec 1999 09:49:57 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:22:00 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've got a striped vinum partition that is occasionally going stale when > I get spurrious errors from the ata driver. > > I can setstate the drives and the volume back up and an fsck of the > partition doesn't show any obvious corruption. > > What do these errors indicate? Your disk is going off. > ad5: status=51 error=84 > ad_interrupt: hard error > vinum0.p0.s3: fatal read I/O error Looks like an uncorrectable read error. It should go away when you actually write to that block (the drive will be able to reallocate it at that point in time). -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message