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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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