From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 17 07:55:29 2005 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 DCD3816A4D6 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:55:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gizmo02bw.bigpond.com (gizmo02bw.bigpond.com [144.140.70.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4218043D3F for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:55:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anthony@carmoda.com) Received: (qmail 14647 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2005 07:55:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bwmam14.bigpond.com) (144.135.24.109) by gizmo02bw.bigpond.com with SMTP; 17 Jan 2005 07:55:17 -0000 Received: from cpe-141-168-97-3.qld.bigpond.net.au ([141.168.97.3]) by bwmam14.bigpond.com(MAM REL_3_4_2a 201/40774468) with SMTP id 40774468; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:55:17 +1000 Message-ID: <41EB6F36.1010501@carmoda.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:54:30 +1000 From: Anthony Carmody User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: server crash: "ad0: hard error cmd" 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, 17 Jan 2005 07:55:30 -0000 Hi Guys, I have a SOHO file server that's become rather grumpy during a move [office to office] it's a 5.1 system with 4 x Western Digital [WD800] hard drives [non RAID] and it's giving me this error: ad0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 86662543 of 86662574 status=51 error =40 Jan 17 18:00:00 init can't exec getty 'usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv5: Input/output error the machine has experienced some hard resets over the last month due to the monsoon season here in the tropics! what is a quick work-around? is the drive dead? any suggestions? /carmoda