From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 16 02:56:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC8C16A417 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:56:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CF4813C442 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:56:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 25so140628wfa.7 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:56:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=yQM8fBqjEj0HwKWqZTeSHVfmY7aCl9thTYeOsO+RUkE=; b=ZYcl4+y5A6Iora06opVCF8UwAOElDafWImnsdMNaG/x9OwbfDQKDXRXA96juo/sW/e1cD9PyZduEAIf0h6eZdHN22ziXSE2C4kERekiYDwR5t3XCcST1jcbT7GFSpFzZOMRxgTI300gX+x1zJgbu4H0V40Be1ri9VnpWSLXFX4E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=kX0B0tDcmOSzS1LRxDEJU8JoMPT+vjNfGmylpJ1bv9/a3FM5O1NgAb+a5bZXQY4Dx+kwDuuBnoEqvXOipbMRli3gGyiLok22Rub0HvAwYuJx1lmOGaOEGsj2eS3eGWHZpb/keMzpMnbIwgkHZgv/D3htlD07hKLi8vXTzf154R8= Received: by 10.142.230.11 with SMTP id c11mr260563wfh.86.1203130599688; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:56:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from sniper ( [75.167.134.77]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 32sm12211849wfa.13.2008.02.15.18.56.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:56:39 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Falanga To: Mel Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:56:12 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200802042014.40016.af300wsm@gmail.com> <200802072329.30152.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <200802072329.30152.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802151956.12850.af300wsm@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please help in diagnosing these smartmon messages 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: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:56:40 -0000 On Thursday 07 February 2008 15:29:29 Mel wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008 04:14:39 Andrew Falanga wrote: > > I know it's probably near impossible to know exactly how much longer this > > drive has, but how serious are these errors? As I mentioned, the > > unreadable sectors on the hard drive are repeated many times in the log ( > > > 100 times). > > If it's not dead already, it can be when you read this or in 2-3 months. I > usually change the cable on the first read error I see popping up, just to > rule out the cable. If the errors persist, it's time to order and stop > adding new stuff to the disk. > Since it's a church disk, you might have better luck with your prayers then > most people. I wanted to say thanks to everyone who answered this one. I figured that the problems shouldn't be good, but wanted to get some input from those who'd used smartd before. Thanks again, Andy