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Date:      Sat, 30 Jun 2001 22:29:48 -0500
From:      mikea <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>
To:        Josh Elsasser <josh@slack.nu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <20010630222948.A86894@mikea.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20010630142808.R70078-100000@jade.elsasser.org>; from josh@slack.nu on Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:03:01PM -0400
References:  <20010630142808.R70078-100000@jade.elsasser.org>

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On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:03:01PM -0400, Josh Elsasser wrote:
> I have an extra ata disk called ad2 (my two main disks are scsi), and
> I woke up this morning to these messages on my console:
> 
> ad2: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> ata1: resetting devices .. ata1-slave: timeout waiting for command=ef
> s=01 e=04
> done
> ad2s1e: soft (ECC corrected) reading fsbn 4255 of 2096-2097 (ad2s1 bn
> 4255; cn 4 tn 3 sn 34)ad2s1e: hard error reading fsbn 4255 of
> 2096-2097 (ad2s1 bn 4255; cn 4 tn 3 sn 34) status=7f error=7f
> 
> Now anything attempting to access ad2 freezes, and not even a kill -9
> will kill it.  I'm guessing that rebooting the machine will "fix" this
> problem (for now at least), but I'm hoping for a better solution.
> 
> Here is my uname -a: FreeBSD jade 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #16:
> Fri Jun 15 17:01:28 EDT 2001 joshe@jade:/usr/src/sys/compile/JADE i386
> 
> Has anyone come across this before?  Any help would be appreciated.
> Also, please replay to josh@slack.nu as I am not subscribed to this
> list.

"It's dead, Jim."

I hope you had a good recent backup of that disk; you're about to 
get to use it. Soft and hard errors reading a disk, and especially
a system hang when trying to read a disk, indicate serious disk
problems or a failure. In your case, I'd say it was a failure.

-- 
Mike Andrews
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964

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