From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Sep 9 14:55:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from sphinx.wuhjuhbuh.2y.net (syr-66-24-24-88.twcny.rr.com [66.24.24.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D469B37B405 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 14:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by sphinx.wuhjuhbuh.2y.net (8.11.4/8.10.1) id f89Lt0a16679; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:55:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: sphinx.wuhjuhbuh.2y.net: nobody set sender to using -f Received: from UNKNOWN(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "wuhjuhbuh.2y.net" via SMTP by sphinx, id smtpdK27874; Sun Sep 9 17:54:58 2001 Received: from 192.168.1.5 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ski) by wuhjuhbuh.2y.net with HTTP; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:54:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3683.192.168.1.5.1000072498.squirrel@wuhjuhbuh.2y.net> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 17:54:58 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: EIDE Drive Errors - Please Help! From: "Brian Szymanski" To: kory@avatar.com In-Reply-To: <007e01c1395f$0c541d40$14ce21c7@avatar.com> References: <007e01c1395f$0c541d40$14ce21c7@avatar.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.0.6) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ouch. I don't envy your situation. Those IBM Deskstar hard drives got rave reviews as being "the fastest EIDE hard drives ever," but apparently they tend to fall apart after a couple of months. I came close to buying one before by chance I happened to read some customer opinions of the product in which 75% of them said that it was "a great product if it only would f****ing work", see: http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-1092-418-1664463.html?tag=st.co.1092- 404-1664463.urev.1092-418-1664463 If at all possible, get a new hard drive and install on that ASAP. With EIDE drives, quality is pretty variable (but very good on certain products). I've had no trouble with my Maxtor, but YMMV. > I have a relatively new IBM DTLA-307045 45G UDMA/100 Hard disk drive > them seems to be having a lot of bad sectors. This is the slave drive > in the system. The first drive is a IBM DTLA-307030 and it is the > master. I'm using the proper shielded cable and the blue connector is > going to the motherboard EIDe controller. The slave drive is connected > to the middle connecter and the master is conncted to the end > connector. The motherboard is a ASUS CUSL2 with a 800MHZ P3 and 512MB > of RAM. The system is running RELEASE-4.3. > > This system was running NT 4.0 for several months without any problems, > although the slave drive was not used extensively. I have on partition, > ad1s1, which takes the entire drive. I used sysinstall to create the > slices, which I wanted to slices to match the master drive. So I did a > disklabel -e, and changed the slices to use ad1s1a, ad1s1e, and ad1s1f > (that is all I changed). I then did a "newfs -b 8192 -f 1024" on the > three filesystem. That all when fine. I mounted ad1s1f on /mnt can > copied about 20 meg, just as a test. I un-mounted it and ran fsck and > start seeing a lot of hard read error and "DMA problem -- using PIO" > errors. When I do a "dd if=/dev/ad1s1 of=/dev/null" I get the same > errors towards the end of the scan. > > I'm not that familiar with IDE drive -- I've been using SCSI mostly > until now. Do I need to get a new drive? Is there a way to map out the > bad sectors on this drive? > > I urgently need help -- I suppose to have did system up and running > online by Monday. > > Thanks, > Kory > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message