Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:00:34 +0200 From: "Christian Walther" <cptsalek@gmail.com> To: "Wood, Russell" <Russell.Wood@rac.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying? Message-ID: <14989d6e0703300200j670a46f3s6369d8132b76ba62@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <D6B5375CBC761B4BAD78E414B4BB55729101BC@mercury.rac.com.au> References: <14989d6e0703291420y1ed229dej7e2808a859f6efa6@mail.gmail.com> <B43905CF-7FE8-4A6F-8805-B15DE2C2EAB3@rottnic.nl> <D6B5375CBC761B4BAD78E414B4BB55729101BC@mercury.rac.com.au>
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On 30/03/07, Wood, Russell <Russell.Wood@rac.com.au> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > > questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Guido Demmenie > > Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 3:00 PM > > To: Christian Walther > > Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions > > Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying? > > > > > > On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Christian Walther wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm seeing a lot of the following messages lately: > > > > > > Mar 29 21:02:01 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 > > > retry left) LBA=13554983 > > > Mar 29 21:02:34 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 > > > retry left) LBA=35376691 > > > > > > > You also might want to give smartmontools a try. This can be found > > in the portscollection (sysutils/smartmontools). This will query > > the SMART tool built in most IDE drives. You can let the harddrive > > do a selfcheck. And gather some statistics from your drive. > > > > -- > > Guido Thanks for pointing me to this port, I'll give it a try this evening. > > When you have a suspected faulty hard drive, the last thing you want to > do is use it. If you want additional confirmation (which I doubt you > need as what you have printed is ample) then try Seatools from Seagate. > It's free and runs of a CDROM. > > - Russell Well, there isn't that much sensitive/important information on the disk, but moving the system over to a fresh disk save me the work of rebuilding the entire system again. And I was just at a local computer store yesterday, buying a bigger disk as a replacement for the disk this thread is about. So I'm quite lucky here. It's just a pity that I was planning a bigger HDD exchange session. The broken disk was supposed to end up a T21. Well, I guess I'll have to get another one. (Originally I didn't want to put more money in the old machine, but its Harddrive is severily damaged but the machine itself performs well for its owner.)
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