From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 14 10:12: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1CFA37B401 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:11:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4E2243FA3 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:11:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1EIBurX003554; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:11:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E4D316C.5040706@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:11:56 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Henrik W Lund Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard error?? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Henrik W Lund wrote: > I'm running 4.7-STABLE on a Compaq Evo1000v, and am generally quite > satisfied. During the last couple of hours, however, I have been getting > the weirdest messages whenever I try to do anything: > > ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 70863167 of 34268000-34268031 (ad0s1 bn > 70863167; cn 4686 tn 172 sn 11) trying PIO mode > ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 70863183 of 34268000-34268031 (ad0s1 bn > 70863183; cn 4686 tn 172 sn 27) status=59 error=01 > ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 70863183 of 34268000-34268031 (ad0s1 bn > 70863183; cn 4686 tn 172 sn 27) status=59 error=01 > ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 70863183 of 34268000-34268031 (ad0s1 bn > 70863183; cn 4686 tn 172 sn 27) status=59 error=01 > ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 70863183 of 34268000-34268031 (ad0s1 bn > 70863183; cn 4686 tn 172 sn 27) status=59 error=01 > ... > ... (repeat to fade) > > What is this? Please, don't tell me my hard drive is about to go ape. > What do I do? Yes, barring dirty power or loose cables, it's either your HDD or the controller that's on the fritz. In my experience, it's usually the HDD, although I've seen controllers act up as well. Whatever you attempt to do to fix this, make sure you have backups right away. Data could already be lost. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message