From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 8 21:19:25 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 29EAF16A419 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 21:19:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA54E13C48E for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 21:19:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id s27so121769ele for ; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:19:15 -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:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=I3dSLWeKOR2JEFbUOj9ezdsiK768U1AbcvlcLcWXV18=; b=MofnuxgKqHd5N5vmghtb3VWYWFqRaWoPBuptAoqW8uu29Md8ALNZ8hveBry+ScqOCAZtMI/jk0XRNRH6zLKH0Uskd/g+numm26UcuCDEmiBjrYtUM2GA/1ruFplRopYmkzmM6mLRiji/JKwenoPfUnJvX0lBn617Wa2nVs6wTKc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZpxD/i+Vhvb6y6zpTl+OIdGgqoacjK449zPJq12OYMfKBToXc1Z9YLI5a/ryUNRAqzqmlEi8e/s2SrGzxyv+LG9LdViyfMD/Iw5VdpvUHMNopGh8MWhVuxhgEwPwurgT2bmTNkazl34gBqWbMIo0BLtq7WSimpi/LsLLhp3NqUo= Received: by 10.78.138.14 with SMTP id l14mr1371425hud.1194556754481; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:19:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.146.10 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:19:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 22:19:14 +0100 From: "Claus Guttesen" To: "David Naylor" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 21:19:25 -0000 > 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) > Corrupt disk? -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare