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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:17:54 +0930 (CST)
Subject: Re: Does 'ad0: HARD READ ERROR' imply impending disk failure?
From: "Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net>
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Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Thursday, 21 June 2001 at 17:46:28 +0930, Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
>
>> Jun 21 16:35:42 grover /kernel: ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 13634000
>>  status=59 error=40
>> Jun 21 16:35:46 grover /kernel: ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 13634000
>>  status=59 error=40
>
> This message is pretty specific.  It comes from the disk, not the IDE
> controller, so you can assume that it's really a disk problem.  It's
> possible that a low-level format could recover something, though.

Thanks for the answer.  I'm going to bite the bullet and buy a new disk.  
In an attempt to salavge the current one, would you recommend a low level 
format over trying badsect(8)?


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