From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 17 00:17:59 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 872A316A418 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:17:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B26F13C455 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:17:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lAH0HvA2028802; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:17:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at daleco.biz Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ezekiel.daleco.biz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id OAoywQInXj7u; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:17:52 -0600 (CST) Received: from archangel.daleco.biz (dsl.daleco.biz [209.125.108.70]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lAH0HkXr028798; Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:17:47 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <473E3325.7000800@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:17:41 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070418 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Douglas Rodriguez References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failing Drive 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, 17 Nov 2007 00:17:59 -0000 Douglas Rodriguez wrote: > I've been getting the following message repeating continuously: > > ad1:FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 > error=1 LBA=216026367 > g_vfs_done():ad1s1[READ(offset = 110605467648, length = 16384)]error=5 > ad1:FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 > error=40 LBA=216026367 > g_vfs_done():ad1s1[READ(offset = 110605467648, length = 16384)]error=5 > ad1:FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 > error=1 LBA=216026367 > g_vfs_done():ad1s1[READ(offset = 110605467648, length = 16384)]error=5 > .... > > The same thing repeats every so often. What does this mean? I've read > other threads (Drives Dieing) about possibly shutting down dma or > reinstalling the system, but is that the best solution to this kind of > problem? Backup, backup, backup ;-) You'll need a Real Expert(tm) to help on the ILLEGAL_LENGTH error, but I've seen UNCORRECTABLE plenty. Keep in mind that it may cost some time and energy to find out; apart from a bad disk, could be a bad disk *controller*. I bought two new HDD's recently because of similar problems, but all of them are now working fine on a new motherboard :-/ Sorry no help here :-/ Kevin Kinsey -- Recursion: n. See Recursion. -- Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary