Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:23:05 -0500 From: mikea <mikea@mikea.ath.cx> To: Erik Rothwell <erothwell@callgtn.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ad2s1e: UDMA ICRC error reading fsbn... Message-ID: <20010805102305.A1947@mikea.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20010805031856.N4222-100000@endymion>; from erothwell@callgtn.com on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 03:24:25AM -0400 References: <20010805031856.N4222-100000@endymion>
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On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 03:24:25AM -0400, Erik Rothwell wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently added a new 40GB disk to my existing FreeBSD system... It's > been less than flawless ;) When I first went to fdisk / disklabel the new > drive, I got an error stating that the drive geometry was improper... I > let /stand/sysinstall pick its own more suitable geometry and proceeded > to newfs the drive, etc. etc. Everything seems all well and good-- the new > drive mounted to /data... however, when I did a few tests moving data to > the new drive I get a *lot* of the following: > [snip lots of error messages which appear to be about bad spots.] > > the file eventually transfers but its quite noisy... now, I'm wondering if > this is due to kernel settings or my UDMA configuration-- or perhaps due > to some hardware problem. > > I at first suspected the cables-- because I accidentally damaged one of > the pins on my old 20GB drive... so, when I got the error at first (by > copying a 750MB file from the old drive to the new) I figured it was an > error in the old drive... so, I tried doing a copy of the same file (now > on /data) to elsewhere also on /data... still, the same errors > reading/writing from/to the same disk... The combination of new disk _plus_ lots of error messages which appear to be about bad spots _plus_ noisy disk leads me to suspect quite strongly that the disk is dying, if not dead by the time you read this. Take it back. Get another. -- Mike Andrews mikea@mikea.ath.cx Tired old sysadmin since 1964 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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