Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:38:07 -0500 (EST) From: "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> To: Peter Boosten <peter@boosten.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: disk error Message-ID: <20080216133502.K83174@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> In-Reply-To: <47B72BCD.9080001@boosten.org> References: <47B71686.7000906@boosten.org> <1203182898.3213.2.camel@new-host.l33tsdal3.biz> <47B72BCD.9080001@boosten.org>
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On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Peter Boosten wrote: > > Brian, thanks for your answer (and sugggestion). > > Isn't a drive supposed to mark a bad sector as bad and ignore it (that is: They ship with a certain number of unallocated sectors to reassign failed ones to (I dont think ATA/IDE disks have a way to ask this, maybe SMART). Once all of the silent allocations happen unbeknown to the user, then your suffering starts. Install smartutils and check these values: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 ~BAS > not use it anymore)? > > -- > http://www.boosten.org > l8* -lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA) http://www.spiritual-machines.org/ "Guilty? Yeah. But he knows it. I mean, you're guilty. You just don't know it. So who's really in jail?" ~Maynard James Keenan
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