From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 19 18:59:40 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38EE216A41A for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:59:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avatar4d@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D0613C478 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:59:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avatar4d@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 68so677741wra for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:59:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=LbplHt184Po7gD4xafduXBeJHIZW4MoRX4TCZMFn6IQ=; b=dEJW2Usa0cREr4ocdvvvztMCexa1c5uIDircfCgldfGafxJ66aCPIinp96dGrjdnsagxoj+MHfoT2gkKpr6c4KkWPyDyLoUySDw1vdDlYbVfqgTyP0ybLTmQt9QSbV8tYD4Idszm9qhMOr5RkYCJPyIFl42VDKxZyR1u1edRx68= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=T3YjO85+xT4KcMCb1XRTtM5QZyn17343xCWMcp3Acx64jOPviGivhm/bVL9bYpdGF8495txADI4uuGB5GcGYSAjgqM9cICYOizEykJj3cAj0e5C50SsTVVhcsykoeaqs1dyfR+hX7K8vokuCt7mZWa4zvs35HGjeeHFUtkOVqxM= Received: by 10.90.90.3 with SMTP id n3mr7305563agb.1195498775313; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:59:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.28.7 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:59:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <17489c7a0711191059s6ac7eeb1xbcec57bc216e4186@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:59:35 -0500 From: "Chad Gross" To: "Douglas Rodriguez" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failing Drive 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, 19 Nov 2007 18:59:40 -0000 On Nov 16, 2007 5:05 PM, Douglas Rodriguez wrote: > I've been getting the following message repeating continuously: > > ad1:FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 > error=1 LBA=216026367 > g_vfs_done():ad1s1[READ(offset = 110605467648, length = 16384)]error=5 > ad1:FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 > error=40 LBA=216026367 > g_vfs_done():ad1s1[READ(offset = 110605467648, length = 16384)]error=5 > ad1:FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 > error=1 LBA=216026367 > g_vfs_done():ad1s1[READ(offset = 110605467648, length = 16384)]error=5 > .... > > The same thing repeats every so often. What does this mean? I've read > other threads (Drives Dieing) about possibly shutting down dma or > reinstalling the system, but is that the best solution to this kind of > problem? > > Thanks. > > ~Doug > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > One of the first things you can do is install sysutils/smartmontools. This package gives you the ability to access the S.M.A.R.T. functionality of your drives. Of course, your drives need to include S.M.A.R.T. capability and be enabled. After installing you can check to see if your drives support it by using the smartctl command. This is also the command that will use to run tests and check the results. Check out their homepage for more info: http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Regards -- Chad M. Gross