From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 16 18:38:08 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 D865F16A419 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:38:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org) Received: from mail.digitalfreaks.org (arbitor.digitalfreaks.org [216.151.95.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABDFC13C469 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:38:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org) Received: by mail.digitalfreaks.org (Postfix, from userid 1022) id 078F817A9B; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:38:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.digitalfreaks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0671F17A99; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:38:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:38:07 -0500 (EST) From: "Brian A. Seklecki" X-X-Sender: lavalamp@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org To: Peter Boosten In-Reply-To: <47B72BCD.9080001@boosten.org> Message-ID: <20080216133502.K83174@arbitor.digitalfreaks.org> References: <47B71686.7000906@boosten.org> <1203182898.3213.2.camel@new-host.l33tsdal3.biz> <47B72BCD.9080001@boosten.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: disk error 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 18:38:08 -0000 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