From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 21 14:15: 2 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 14:14:59 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freyr.cba.ualr.edu (freyr.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4667737B400 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:14:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from joe@localhost) by freyr.cba.ualr.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBLMF2k13996; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:15:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:15:02 -0600 From: "Joseph E. Royce" To: "Geoffrey Crompton (RMIT Guest)" Cc: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: hard read error Message-ID: <20001221161502.A13946@freyr.cba.ualr.edu> References: <20001222084607.A8159@gecko.eric.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20001222084607.A8159@gecko.eric.net.au>; from ghcrompton@gecko.eric.net.au on Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 08:46:07AM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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