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Date:      Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:15:02 -0600
From:      "Joseph E. Royce" <joe@freyr.cba.ualr.edu>
To:        "Geoffrey Crompton (RMIT Guest)" <ghcrompton@gecko.eric.net.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: hard read error
Message-ID:  <20001221161502.A13946@freyr.cba.ualr.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20001222084607.A8159@gecko.eric.net.au>; from ghcrompton@gecko.eric.net.au on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:46:07AM %2B1100
References:  <20001222084607.A8159@gecko.eric.net.au>

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On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:46:07AM +1100, Geoffrey Crompton (RMIT Guest) wrote:
>   I know this issue has come up before. I'm getting hard read errors,
> both in 4.1.1 and 4.2. However, it seems there are alot less of them
> in 4.2
>   I have noticed that now, it basically only occurs during one of the
> 2am daily periodic scripts. I don't know which one is triggering this
> error, I suspect it would be the updateing of the locate database.
> 
> However, each morning I have about 12 error messages, and over 90%
> of them are:
> 
> ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 14484670 status=59 error=40
> 
>   Can anyone tell me if there is away to work out which file is sitting
> on this block? And also what do the status and error numbers indicate?
> 
>   Thanks a lot!
>   Geoff  
> 

I believe this is a sign that your IDE controller is going south. I
was getting the same errors on one of mine, so I moved the harddisk
into another box and have had no problems since. 

HTH, Joe


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