From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 2 02:23:37 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1A810656B3 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 02:23:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xyin@gmx.com) Received: from mailout-us.gmx.com (mailout-us.gmx.com [74.208.5.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBB5B8FC0C for ; Thu, 2 Sep 2010 02:23:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 02 Sep 2010 02:23:35 -0000 Received: from pool-173-67-1-8.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net (EHLO router1.verzon.com.home) [173.67.1.8] by mail.gmx.com (mp-us005) with SMTP; 01 Sep 2010 22:23:35 -0400 X-Authenticated: #50283380 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX180NAA48lM0vD6Ij+BKBI6EfuODMYQ9UPDr45PfG1 tO2nrINvAJGRRF Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 22:29:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Xihong Yin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: error - ad2: FAILURE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:23:37 -0000 Hi, I received the following error when I try to access files in some of the directories in /usr and when the computer boots. ad2s1f is mounted on /usr. ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=40 LBA=37370159 g_vfs_done():ad2s1f[READ(offset=15415558144, length=16384)]error = 5 Is this a sign of hard drive failure? Can I fix the error or do I have to replace the hard drive? Regards, Xihong