From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 12 13:34:31 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09851 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:34:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09844 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:34:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA81283; Fri, 12 Feb 1999 21:34:07 GMT Message-ID: <36C49E78.C9D01799@tdx.co.uk> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 21:34:48 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Dekkers CC: FreeBSD Mailinglist Subject: Re: soft errors and so on?! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Dekkers wrote: > > Hi > > What do these soft errors mean? That my disk is going to die or that the > disk wasn't properly unmounted because some prog still wrote on it or > something? Soft errors are normally read errors that are corrected in hardware/software (by the fact the drive stores more bits than the original 'data' bits (for error checking / recovery) Be careful, your drive could be on it's way out... Or at the very least you might have bad blocks that are 'borderline' readable... Now would be a good time to make sure you backup your important data... -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message