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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 09:13:31 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Hard disk going bad?
References: <19980120094523.42131@lemis.com> <199801201348.HAA20395@horton.iaces.com>
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On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 07:48:56AM -0600, Paul T. Root wrote:
> In a previous message, Greg Lehey said:
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 07:59:09AM -0600, Paul T. Root wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 	From my daily output, I got these messages. I have a 2940UW and
>>> sd1 is a SEAGATE ST19171W. sd0 is a SEAGATE ST32550W. There is nothing
>>> else on the SCSI bus. I'm running 2.2.5-Release.
>>>
>>> Is this disk going out?
>>
>> Quite possibly.  Have you changed anything recently?
>>
>> Greg
>
> Nope, it's been up for a month. I did a make buildworld, make installworld
> on it at that time. It took several tries on the buildworld, I'm told that's
> a cache problem, but it did finally succeed.

Then I'm afraid it's probably a dying disk.  You could check cables,
simply because it's a thing to do, but I don't think it'll change
anything.

Greg