From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 17 10:33:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 596E337B7F6 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:33:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12VztL-000KnS-00; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:46:27 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12VztL-000GTP-00; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:46:27 +0000 Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:46:27 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: andrew@ugh.net.au Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard Drive Errors Message-ID: <20000317164627.B24722@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG andrew@ugh.net.au wrote: > wd0s1a: soft error writing fsbn 65617 of 65616-65631 (wd0s1 bn 65617; cn > 16 tn 1 > 7 sn 34) (status 50 error 10) > swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x20001, blkno: 4024, > size: 4096 > swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x20001, blkno: 9800, > size: 4096 > wd0s1a: soft error writing fsbn 65617 of 65616-65631 (wd0s1 bn 65617; cn > 16 tn 1 > 7 sn 34) (status 50 error 10) > wd0s1a: soft error writing fsbn 65619 of 65616-65631 (wd0s1 bn 65619; cn > 16 tn 1 > 7 sn 36) (status 50 error 10) > swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x20001, blkno: 4024, > size: 4096 > swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 0x20001, blkno: 9800, > size: 4096 > > and so on for 4 pages. I'm guessing my HD is dieing? Possibly, though it could just be that a cable is loose. I had this problem when a power connector became slightly loose. Worth checking before buying a new disk anyway. :-) If it isn't that, I think I'd go for a new disk, certainly make a backup as soon as possible. > If so is there any > way to fix it...ie map out the bad bits I think bad144 can do that, but support has been removed in recent FreeBSD releases, AFAIK. > wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): , DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-16 Seagate, huh... No comment. :-) The last seagate I bought died within a couple of months; I've never had any problems with various Quantum Fireballs. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message