From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 23 09:22:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA23159 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:22:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles154.castles.com [208.214.165.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA23095 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:21:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA03990; Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:27:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809231627.JAA03990@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Disk timeouts only during install newfs? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 23 Sep 1998 18:21:35 +0930." <19980923182135.Z12701@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:27:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've just finished installing 2.2.6 on a not-completely-new Pentium > machine with IDE disks. During the initial newfs, it had numerous DRQ > timeouts on the drive (ready, seek_done) (no_dam). After fsck, the > install ran with no problem, and fsck showed no problems. The machine > appears to be OK. > > Has anybody seen this before? Any ideas? Sounds like the disk might have spent a lot of time forwarding bad sectors. I'd want to at least dd over the entire disk before trusting it for active use. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message