From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 30 09:00:36 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 D685916A404 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:00:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5726D13C448 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:00:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so757884ugh for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:00:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=IerLvtWULzSnS5i4IWBbekmjm3SX1R+LBUD6OqaImHGizIj07Qb9hgNqm1nOELVnjUqaZjCS5fjSpcjoidEX7yvVQQIwhwQBVQEnriJbJOlSYI39PuQM3SN+A1v5K0bTFbW0CbX/dxwU7XZkJjP3JOxfp8U6IRUslN5bkYBapTU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=G2ZszieRt94guzMRDIJKs0uQ5o1OiGZwZWzmAW7l4/gUmU9xSG6mz3MnCRptmBi1UVpMt3ywfnnEf6FmHMovZWy0JuVxDRp/8dd7FPghQ1x5xhRdXUaumrYxIunb5eL1b3J2di2SJ+jomfTbqg5GsofCbPrWRXoh07YPZK3CpG0= Received: by 10.82.148.7 with SMTP id v7mr3386500bud.1175245234890; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:00:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.153.6 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:00:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <14989d6e0703300200j670a46f3s6369d8132b76ba62@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:00:34 +0200 From: "Christian Walther" To: "Wood, Russell" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <14989d6e0703291420y1ed229dej7e2808a859f6efa6@mail.gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying? 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, 30 Mar 2007 09:00:36 -0000 On 30/03/07, Wood, Russell 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.)