From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 21 0:57:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cmailg1.svr.pol.co.uk (cmailg1.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.195.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7784F37B402 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 00:57:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from modem-1133.arbok.dialup.pol.co.uk ([217.135.20.109] helo=jessikat.fsnet.co.uk) by cmailg1.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 16dp2W-0004Ki-00 for freebsd-questions@freeBSD.ORG; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:57:21 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 08:55:32 +0000 To: freebsd-questions@freeBSD.ORG From: Robin Becker Subject: Re: hard disk errors References: <54629105@toto.iv> <15476.2903.219792.310210@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15476.2903.219792.310210@guru.mired.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U <8fY3TEtAaFySF58ErPUfo9YLW3> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <15476.2903.219792.310210@guru.mired.org>, Mike Meyer writes ...... >> What should I be doing? I have backups, but this is our cvs server and >> messing around is not desirable. Does the boss need to splash out on a >> whole new machine? > >Most likely, the drive is about to die, and the boss needs to splash >out for a new drive. it might be the cable or motherboard, but it's >unlikely to be one of those unless you've been mucking around inside >the machine recently. > ..... that's what I figured. When I was a lot younger there was something called bad-blocking drives, but it seems that is hard to do with modern eide drives. There seems to be some suggestion that manufacturer low level formatting of the drive might help, but that'd be way too late for our data anyhow. -- Robin Becker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message