From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 8 21:06:47 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CDF116A41A for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 21:06:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from naylor.b.david@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0602613C4B3 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 21:06:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from naylor.b.david@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so615665pyb for ; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:06:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:x-google-sender-auth; bh=jZWcLev/wnuXoWiUD38rkcOsyKw5mF5HAaSsWLCD6vg=; b=XL1i9JJra73/gLvL91nyjXFKsxE3eCnEdNW6SDEGwCr4emcC7xBY4bwYMDIRMHk1mw043zBk3neLOeR918jRuLo8aea6mjPU6wvASY5PfwoKRZxi4oT3PHFACnbRJCDq86V0buMqSSGz5wzIpq3fYpRcuG7jGh3UPprIYT3QIq4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:x-google-sender-auth; b=dC/qJbQV7xMtyrW4z+nrc5CSrREPWcmzJuuSjqbh8YbE7/6Rjs+0LYUhiO9wP1BPXUZd8hv2cud5/vPpsSnU0G2q+W1qMDcWk8zkNvxb+xpu9k/PGRbj+75p3MqnQUCzDMgf24cQZ39USQFfZokHOWF3eRlEAns+zu+qvFUyPBE= Received: by 10.65.138.4 with SMTP id q4mr5349342qbn.1194554449873; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:40:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.231.2 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 12:40:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 22:40:49 +0200 From: "David Naylor" Sender: naylor.b.david@gmail.com To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 59cbce459c8d4577 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Harddisk failure causes system crash, please help X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:06:47 -0000 Hi, I have been using this laptop for a few months now with FreeBSD without any problems with the hard disk however today as I installed editors/vim the system crashed (without a core dump or any message). When ever the system boots (and proceeds to do a fsck on ad0e (/usr)) it also crashes without any message. I have tried the following commands: # dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/null bs=1M ( System crashes) # smartctl -C -t short ( Succeeds ) # smartctl -C -t long ( Failes with a message: ad0: FAILED - SMART timed out) If I force the mounting of /usr without fsck then the system does boot (but I am not sure how stable it is). I have updated the kernel to cvs RELENG_7 from a few hours ago (and it compiled without a problem after force mounting (and using tmpfs as obj directory, did not try any other way) I have no idea what is wrong (if the disk has corrupted should the kernel not display error messages?). Can you please help/advise? Thank you in advance. David