Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 16:09:40 +0100 From: Igor Pokrovsky <igor.pokrovsky@cnrm.meteo.fr> To: Thomas Stratmann <strattbo@stud.physik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hard reading error (follow up) Message-ID: <3E64C1B4.D862C347@cnrm.meteo.fr> References: <20030304145440.GB19305@m50.physik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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Thomas Stratmann wrote: > > Hi, > > rebooting seems to have fixed it, strangely. The permanent disk action > accompanied with these error messages came from the mail spooling > system. Several other places were infected as well, typing 'man' would > not work etc. Rebooting gave 'giving up on 21 buffers'. After reboot > all seems fine, but I don't trust this... As I told, your hard disk remapped bad sectors itself, in your case even without remaking of filesystem. You are lucky. Anyway I suggest you not to keep important data on this disk, because some day it may not be able to remap bad sectors, because it will ran out of extra sectors, to remap onto. -- Igor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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