From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 9 06:30:05 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 4923616A418 for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 06:30:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from naylor.b.david@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA6913C48A for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2007 06:30:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from naylor.b.david@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so862211pyb for ; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:29:52 -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:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=Ag1dlMi44C+Rr+hFcPwFrZqIeumOU+mXvOXOyiqyk40=; b=teSIrtk2nFzhIFRczIg7mEfML4Z/5ugVn7HS/eoieRu/tfSzYvRrBKOsqBqmx9vPxWD/n4Fd/1ehLhzWrn9ybs4ADPZSIWCIb8r53h+YOUrX1+wQMKekL9h5kJ/nRLKsxJBHPh7yRhMkSubu+IFNP7FYPkVV0XsgtW/U4DE5HuY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=fV9et8g4nAPV+fjoox/Y19x0CQSLuuTJpSRNwEbZrAKl/W7Vi74dGpojFMW6x47tj1eLHySmawYlDSaB03rcefvMCdkMpzs6TKM+cwhRry+FwnseDcFebxLWKi3jQbtu2/eUtLk5iW8bAp6fSHc/6C8ndfxKrnw5nay6UBnukjI= Received: by 10.65.214.2 with SMTP id r2mr6388849qbq.1194589792578; Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:29:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.231.2 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 22:29:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 08:29:52 +0200 From: "David Naylor" Sender: naylor.b.david@gmail.com To: "Jeremy Chadwick" In-Reply-To: <20071108212921.GA34721@eos.sc1.parodius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071108212921.GA34721@eos.sc1.parodius.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: ba9345f966c2cc53 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: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:30:05 -0000 On 08/11/2007, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Sounds like something mechanical inside of the disk is failing, or > possibly the drive firmware is somewhat buggy when it comes to handling > bad blocks. What brand/model of hard disk is this? atacontrol output > would suffice. I'm just curious (personal interest). # atacontrol list ATA channel 0: Master: ad0 ATA/ATAPI revision 6 > Not necessarily, although I would expect to see a bus timeout of some > kind, but it doesn't surprise me that you don't see one. If a long I remember seeing a timeout of sorts once, it was while doing a dd. I have done further dd tests and only the one slice causes this problem: ad0e > SMART test results in the drive timing out and falling off the bus, > there's a much bigger problem at hand. There is a possibility that the > system is simply going bad in some way (RAM issues or mainboard that's I doubt it is RAM since I have been able to compile the kernel in RAM, but a good suggestion. Had a RAM problem with another computer, failure was much more erratic... > broken somehow), but all your problems seem to indicate issues with the > disk. Do you know of any test I can run using Windows (BartPE) that could possibly diagnose the problem (or at least confirm it is not FreeBSD's fault for rebooting and just hardware error)? By the way, the laptop is a Acer TravelMate 2700 (with very buggy USB controllers). Thank you for your help. David