From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 3 07:33:52 2004 Return-Path: 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 7FC5216A4CF for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 07:33:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from woad.digitalcelt.net (woad.digitalcelt.net [65.68.132.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A0B543D2F for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 07:33:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gobinau@digitalcelt.net) Received: by woad.digitalcelt.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A1D526116; Mon, 3 May 2004 09:36:00 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 09:36:00 -0500 From: "Reuben A. Popp" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040503143600.GA715@digitalcelt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Harddrive Failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 14:33:52 -0000 --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Morning all,=20 While working last night, my workstation here started acting up (songs play= ing in xmms were pausing like the machine was lagging). Upon looking at th= e console messages of XFree, I saw that I was receiving a large number of m= essages that looked like: ad3: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=3D51 error=3D40 LBA=3D2572271 Great, a harddrive failure on an 80 gig drive that I had no backup for. =20 The box more or less locked up on me after that, whereupon I did a hard reb= oot. After looking on google a bit, I decided to try a tool someone reccom= ended from sysutils ports called smartmon. That spit out a large number of= errors at me. Okay, so the disk is bad, bum deal. But... After rebooting a second time or so, I'm seeing this error on my console: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=3D51 error=3D40 LBA=3D4631543 May 3 09:10:03 woad syslogd: /var/log/cron: Input/output error =20 Crap, now its on the main system drive. Now I might not be entirely saavy,= but I would like to think that I'm not going to have two drives crap out o= n me at one time. The main drive still works fine after that, although con= sole will occasionally spit that error out at me. =20 Can anyone fill me in on what might be the problem? I've rebuild world and= kernel (going from 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 to 5.2.1-RELEASE-p5), as well as switc= hed out ribbon cables for the drives. The first drive in question (first f= ailure that is), is a Maxtor 80 gig IDE, while the main system drive is a M= axtor 40 gig IDE. The 80 gig is less than a half a year old, while the 40 = gig is a year old (maybe). In case anyone needs the info, the motherboard = is an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe (with the Intel ICH5R/875P chipset). Thanks in advance, and cheers :) Reuben A. Popp --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAlljPd1N/Kyhy5tIRAqnBAKCgXFX9zcNvQ4Os80B8erf+5Im9CwCgnfbG wEiaP73jdAvL8UMBggPFNlg= =RjDk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu--