From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 1 00:13:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD02016A41F for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 00:13:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from smtpout1.ywave.com (ycomradius.yelmtel.com [216.227.100.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 574F943D48 for ; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 00:13:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: (qmail 3446 invoked by uid 502); 1 Oct 2005 00:13:31 -0000 Received: from dsl28163.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@216.227.115.163) by 0 with SMTP; 1 Oct 2005 00:13:31 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 216.227.115.163 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl28163.ywave.com Message-ID: <433DD4AA.9030905@ywave.com> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:13:30 -0700 From: Micah User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050924) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Jeays References: <1128112317.678.18.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> <20050930164322.0044.GERARD@seibercom.net> <1128125295.687.6.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <1128125295.687.6.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk errors 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: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:13:33 -0000 Mike Jeays wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 16:48, Gerard Seibert wrote: > >>On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:31:58 -0400, Mike Jeays >>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. >>> >>>ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=61092255 >>>ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=61314367 >>>ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=7139615 >> >>***** 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. >> > > > Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't fancy spending $89 US on software > to test a single 80GB disk, because I can buy a new one for about the > same price. > > I googled for free tools, and found DFT by Hitachi. I downloaded the > bootable CD version, and tested my disk with it. DFT didn't report any > errors, and so I will carry on using the disk, and make sure I have good > backups. The tool was easy to download and use, but I don't have any > evidence about how good it is at finding errors - so far. > > DFT can be found at: > http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm > A good collection of free tools that includes several hard disk diagnostic apps, try the ultimate boot cd. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ It's come in handy once or twice. Later, Micah