Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:48:07 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk errors Message-ID: <20050930164322.0044.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <1128112317.678.18.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> References: <1128112317.678.18.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca>
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:31:58 -0400, Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> Subject: Disk errors Wrote these words of wisdom: > I am getting one or two of these a day on a Western Digital 80GB disk > How concerned should I be? The machine seems reliable otherwise. >=20 > ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=3D610922= 55 > ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=3D613143= 67 > ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=3D713961= 5 ***** REPLY SEPARATOR ***** On 9/30/2005 4:43:22 PM, Gerard Seibert Replied: I am not sure what free disk diagnostic programs are available, but I have used Steve Gibson's 'SpinRite' < http://grc.com > with great success in the past. If there is something wrong with the disk or controller, it will find it. Just run it at the highest level, level 5 I believe. --=20 Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net
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