From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 13:38:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.intercom.es (relay.intercom.es [212.66.160.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F13E137B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 13:38:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from lix.intercom.es (root@lix.intercom.es [212.66.160.2]) by relay.intercom.es (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA17255; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 21:21:13 +0100 Received: from intercom.es (iv2-106.intercom.es [212.66.169.106]) by lix.intercom.es (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA17327; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 22:31:16 +0100 Received: (from megarcia@localhost) by intercom.es (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eA7LddR01881; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 22:39:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from megarcia) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 22:39:38 +0100 From: Manuel Enrique Garcia Cuesta To: Darryl Hoar Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ad0: Hard Read Error Message-ID: <20001107223938.B326@ilex.kicelo.org> References: <002301c048e8$a28b61f0$0701a8c0@ruraltel.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <002301c048e8$a28b61f0$0701a8c0@ruraltel.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Darryl, === Darryl Hoar escribia (Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:29:15PM -0600): > Greetings, > I am running FreeBSD 4.0-Release installed from the Walnut Creek > CD-ROMS. I have recently been receiving the following message > ad0: Hard Read Error blk# 2845389 Status=59 Error=10. I receive > this message for other block#'s as well. I did a brief search of the > archive and didn't find a useful answer. Is this an indicator that > the hard drive (a Fireball 3.2GB IDE drive) is shot ? Or am I > experiencing another problem ? I was going to drop in a new > IDE drive, but thought I'd ask if this problem was not related to > hardware. If you want to be sure you can go to Quantum's site and look there for their test software. It's a Windows executable that lets you build a bootable floppy. Boot your machine with it and follow directions, it will tell you whether your disk is in trouble or not. > > thanks in advance, > HTH > -- Darryl > Manuel Garcia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message