From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 27 7:19:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.az.home.com (ha1.rdc1.az.home.com [24.1.240.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2122414A0B for ; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 07:19:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@vagner.com) Received: from cx264598-a.mesa1.az.home.com ([24.14.27.99]) by mail.rdc1.az.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19991127151935.KKGO7363.mail.rdc1.az.home.com@cx264598-a.mesa1.az.home.com>; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 07:19:35 -0800 From: George Vagner Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 15:19:30 GMT Message-ID: <19991127.15193000@cx264598-a.mesa1.az.home.com> Subject: Re: Harddisk problems To: Thomas Schuerger Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199911271244.NAA18495@wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de> References: <199911271244.NAA18495@wjpserver.cs.uni-sb.de> X-Mailer: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; StarOffice/5.1; Linux) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Make sure that you are using an UDMA cable, I had various errors on my Maxtor drive because i was using just a plain old cable and not an UDMA cable. The UDMA cables have 80 wires in them, a wire between=20 each real conductor to shunt noise to ground. Just a thought... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 11/27/99, 5:44:31 AM, Thomas Schuerger=20 wrote regarding Harddisk problems: > Hi! > I just bought an IBM Deskstar DPTA-372730 27.3 GB UDMA/2 drive > for my FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT system. However, I am having severe=20 problems > with the 19 GB slice I have created. > I am using the ATA driver with my UDMA controller on my ASUS P2B-DS > mainboard. The ATA driver keeps telling me there are "hard errors" > when reading some certain sectors on the disk. fsck currently cannot > check the slice, as it reports there are two sectors that cannot be > read (fsck does not mark the slice as being clean, so I cannot > mount the disk r/w). However, before there were once problems to > unmount the disk on reboot (and therefore fsck check was enforced), > I was able to use the slice just fine (even though the ATA driver > reported those errors in the console). The other slices on the disk > work fine so far. > The ATA driver outputs the following in the console: > ad0: status=3D51 error=3D84 > ad_interrupt: hard error > fsck reports the following: > ** /dev/rad0s1g > ** Last Mounted on /data > ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes > CANNOT READ: BLK 18350144 > CONTINUE? [yn] y > THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 18350191, > CANNOT READ: BLK 38274656 > CONTINUE? [yn] y > THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 38274713, > ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames > ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity > ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts > ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups > 13387 files, 7898160 used, 11063158 free (11870 frags, 1381411 blocks,= =20 0.1% fragmentation) > ***** FILE SYSTEM STILL DIRTY ***** > ***** PLEASE RERUN FSCK ***** > I have tried formatting the whole partition with Windows and that > worked fine. Then I used newfs to reinstall UFS on it (which went > much too fast for actually formatting the disk), something like > 30 seconds with FreeBSD compared to 20 minutes with Windows (note > that using Windows I formatted the whole partition, whereas using > FreeBSD I just newfs'ed the 19 GB slice). > Is there a better way to actually check the slice for errors or > do a "format" that does a verify on the formatted data? I'd like to > know whether the disk really has some hard errors on it or if perhaps > the filesystem or ATA driver cannot handle such big partition. I'd > also like to know which testing tools can be used to check that. > Thanks for your answers! > Ciao, > Thomas Sch=FCrger. http://www.menden.augustin.de > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message