From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 10 14:53:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C01C37B401 for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 14:53:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark9 (hutch-288.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.216]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id QAA29875; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 16:53:02 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <017b01c093b4$346674a0$6100000a@vladsempire.net> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Ryan Masse" , "FreeBSD-Questions" References: <007601c093a9$dad32280$0a00a8c0@Home> Subject: Re: unusual reboots Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 16:51:33 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Masse" To: "FreeBSD-Questions" 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