From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 5 8:23:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mikea.ath.cx (okc-65-26-223-53.mmcable.com [65.26.223.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BD4237B401 for ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 08:23:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikea@mikea.ath.cx) Received: (from mikea@localhost) by mikea.ath.cx (8.11.5/8.11.1) id f75FN5R02051; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:23:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mikea) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 10:23:05 -0500 From: mikea To: Erik Rothwell Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ad2s1e: UDMA ICRC error reading fsbn... Message-ID: <20010805102305.A1947@mikea.ath.cx> References: <20010805031856.N4222-100000@endymion> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20010805031856.N4222-100000@endymion>; from erothwell@callgtn.com on Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 03:24:25AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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