From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 30 20:21:21 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE22416A401 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:21:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E8DF13C44C for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:21:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so938088ugh for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:21:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Sv7ZJTpBOq3L6FJtS7+aLq7v6O6PCIGZai11EWPDi3dlmi5u9NgBLxaymZFLtgBeNRtiNRZv7Wb4zDH0OhCSocYIOcCfIBRwJSwGBFggSamoaizCPYGoV1GRLGrpXp1aQpXmGPDy91wT0H7R4gDRexITvhTTAkNaXQKMqrlPzGU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gFR/ufslISA+NexF4m1ZNjQkcgRsGHn6LNV9Xl2hOcIOZSGjx+CqBvCjfDgpoMD18v41tvHCuqS3IULYvph9Q6DrOCBKe3iZTzGoq4y7gvMai3WA4I+kG5MEfEJQ5fbLAdbDEplsznkYNXvqXzfnDheO1jaNH3DBNQFnReoT5tI= Received: by 10.82.167.5 with SMTP id p5mr4584236bue.1175286071561; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:21:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.153.6 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:21:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <14989d6e0703301321h3461c431i4e0d4a2315838ba8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:21:11 +0000 From: "Christian Walther" To: "Alex Zbyslaw" In-Reply-To: <460D1441.60904@dial.pipex.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <14989d6e0703291420y1ed229dej7e2808a859f6efa6@mail.gmail.com> <14989d6e0703300200j670a46f3s6369d8132b76ba62@mail.gmail.com> <460D1441.60904@dial.pipex.com> Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying? 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: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:21:22 -0000 On 30/03/07, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Christian Walther wrote: > > >> > >> > > I'm seeing a lot of the following messages lately: > >> > > > >> > > Mar 29 21:02:01 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 > >> > > retry left) LBA=13554983 > >> > > Mar 29 21:02:34 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 > >> > > retry left) LBA=35376691 > >> > > Just thought I should point out that you can get errors like this if > your disk drive *cable* is faulty or has wiggled loose. > Yes, I know these defects, but this is an IBM Laptop which doesn't has a cable to connect the HDD to the mainboard. I just checked it as I replaced the disk. ;-) So the system is up and running again. Everything went really smooth: I booted FreeBSIE, dumped all filesystem to a NFS share, replaced the disk, formatted the new disk, and restored everything. Rebooted the machine, and here we are. :-) Thanks everybody for your advice and information. BTW: If I understand smartmontools correctly the disks firmware counted 67 r/w errors.