From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 3 09:13:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15888 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 09:13:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles335.castles.com [208.214.167.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA15770 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 09:13:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA14148; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 09:12:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808031612.JAA14148@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Chris cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WD errors In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 Aug 1998 10:40:12 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 09:12:25 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > within the last week i have been running into problems when the system > will go idle. It will still take something like telnet/http/ftp > connections but will never complete them and allow the login. it will > connect up but then never display a prompt. Errors on the console are as > follows. wd0s1f: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command reading fsbn > 3148892 of 3148892-3148893 (wd0s1 bn 3689468; cn 229 tn 167 sn 62)wd0: > status 80 error 80. after afew screens of that the message > will turn to wd0: wdunwedge failed: > > wd0: status 80 error 80 > > wd0s1f: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command reading fsbn 3148892 of > 3148892-3148893 (wd0s1 bn 3689468; cn 229 tn 167 sn 62)wd0: status > 80 error 80. the system will remain on-line (ie pingable) > but will no longer display a console login either. a hard boot will take > care of the problem but once the system drops into idle again they will > reserface. Your disk seems to be struggling with a bad block. The best thing to do at this point is throw the disk out and get a new one, as with any modern IDE disk you will only get to this point once all of the available spare sectors have been used up. -- \\ 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-stable" in the body of the message