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To: Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem?
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At 04:13 PM 19/01/2005, Karl Denninger wrote:
>I'm having a lot of trouble believing this is an actual disk problem.  Among
>other things, its happening at different places - not always at the same
>block.


If you have the drives on a RELENG_5 box, try
/usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/
Its quite handy to sort of various drive issues as well as to monitor for 
ongoing errors via the daemon.

         ---Mike