Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 16:51:33 -0600 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Ryan Masse" <mail@max-info.net>, "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: unusual reboots Message-ID: <017b01c093b4$346674a0$6100000a@vladsempire.net> References: <007601c093a9$dad32280$0a00a8c0@Home>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Masse" <mail@max-info.net> To: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 3:34 PM Subject: unusual reboots > Lately our webserver running FreeBSD 4.1.1 Stable has been rebooting > unexpectedly. I've been getting the following in my /var/log/messages on > boot: > > > ad0: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# 239 retrying > > ad0: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# 239 falling back to PIO mode > Is it always blk# 239 that it chokes on, or is it different blocks? If it is always the same block then it's probably a bad sector. In this case I doubt that it is, since you have the same problem on a new drive. You either have a bad hard drive, cable, or controller. If swapping the cable doesn't fix the problem, then I would throw a different controller in. Josh > Originally we thought the hd was failing but after replacing it with a new > drive, doing a backup from the old to the new, those errors would show up > both when trying to backup to the new disk as well as when booting with the > new drive mounted. Either its a coincidence that both drives are bad or > there is something wrong with the IDE controller on the main board. My > questions is would this cause a system to reboot? often the system will > crash when taring up folders with high i/o from the hd, especially when > taring up the /usr folder for backups. Is the system crashing because it > tries to read a bad block? > > Any response would be appreciated for this is machine is in production and > downtime is getting costly =\ > > Thanks, > > Ryan Masse > IT / Authoring Tech > Mastery Group of Canada, Inc. > Rmasse@mastery.ca > http://www.masterycanada.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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