Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 18:11:33 -0700 From: "Kory Hamzeh" <kory@avatar.com> To: "Brian Szymanski" <brian.szymanski@cornell.edu> Cc: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: EIDE Drive Errors - Please Help! Message-ID: <003701c13995$87b23cc0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> In-Reply-To: <3683.192.168.1.5.1000072498.squirrel@wuhjuhbuh.2y.net>
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You're scaring me, man! I've always have had very good luck with the reliability of IBM hardware! Some kind person on the list pointed me to software on IBM sites that allowed me to re-format and map the bad sectors out. It seems to be fine right now and I don't have enough time right now to swap drives and re-install the OS. The system has to be up by the morning. What is the easiest way of swapping both drives? I suspect I should do a level 0 dump. Install the new drive. Install a minimum FBSD system and them restore from tape on top of it?? Thanks, Kory > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Szymanski [mailto:brian.szymanski@cornell.edu] > > Ouch. I don't envy your situation. Those IBM Deskstar hard drives > got rave > reviews as being "the fastest EIDE hard drives ever," but apparently they > tend to fall apart after a couple of months. I came close to buying one > before by chance I happened to read some customer opinions of the product > in which 75% of them said that it was "a great product if it only would > f****ing work", see: > > http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-1092-418-1664463.html?tag=st.co.1092- > 404-1664463.urev.1092-418-1664463 > > If at all possible, get a new hard drive and install on that ASAP. With > EIDE drives, quality is pretty variable (but very good on certain > products). I've had no trouble with my Maxtor, but YMMV. > > > I have a relatively new IBM DTLA-307045 45G UDMA/100 Hard disk drive > > them seems to be having a lot of bad sectors. This is the slave drive > > in the system. The first drive is a IBM DTLA-307030 and it is the > > master. I'm using the proper shielded cable and the blue connector is > > going to the motherboard EIDe controller. The slave drive is connected > > to the middle connecter and the master is conncted to the end > > connector. The motherboard is a ASUS CUSL2 with a 800MHZ P3 and 512MB > > of RAM. The system is running RELEASE-4.3. > > > > This system was running NT 4.0 for several months without any problems, > > although the slave drive was not used extensively. I have on partition, > > ad1s1, which takes the entire drive. I used sysinstall to create the > > slices, which I wanted to slices to match the master drive. So I did a > > disklabel -e, and changed the slices to use ad1s1a, ad1s1e, and ad1s1f > > (that is all I changed). I then did a "newfs -b 8192 -f 1024" on the > > three filesystem. That all when fine. I mounted ad1s1f on /mnt can > > copied about 20 meg, just as a test. I un-mounted it and ran fsck and > > start seeing a lot of hard read error and "DMA problem -- using PIO" > > errors. When I do a "dd if=/dev/ad1s1 of=/dev/null" I get the same > > errors towards the end of the scan. > > > > I'm not that familiar with IDE drive -- I've been using SCSI mostly > > until now. Do I need to get a new drive? Is there a way to map out the > > bad sectors on this drive? > > > > I urgently need help -- I suppose to have did system up and running > > online by Monday. > > > > Thanks, > > Kory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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