From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 23 18:14:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 5ED9B16A41C for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 18:14:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2770A43D49 for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 18:14:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 3431 invoked from network); 23 May 2005 18:14:11 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 3377, pid: 3429, t: 0.1332s scanners: clamav: 0.84/m:31/d:888 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail25.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 23 May 2005 18:14:11 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 894C930; Mon, 23 May 2005 14:14:10 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4292114F.50006@pixelpoint.dk> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 23 May 2005 14:14:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4292114F.50006@pixelpoint.dk> Message-ID: <44psvhzu6l.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Disk problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 18:14:12 -0000 Martin Kruse Jensen writes: > I'm having some problems with my FreeBSD 5.3 server, running on an AMD > using IDE disks. The disk is having some problems: > # dmesg > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out > ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=18986207 > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out > ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=18986335 > ...cut... > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out > ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=18973151 > > I'm suspecting some bad blocks, but how do i test for them, and mark > them bad? > I'm extremely new in FreeBSD so be gentle ;o) "What do I do when I have bad blocks on my hard drive?" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#AWRE But in this case, it doesn't look like bad blocks to me. Much more like electronics problems. [Have you opened the case lately? Try replacing the ATA cable.]