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Date:      Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:48:07 -0400
From:      Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Disk errors
Message-ID:  <20050930164322.0044.GERARD@seibercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <1128112317.678.18.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca>
References:  <1128112317.678.18.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca>

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On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:31:58 -0400, Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com>
Subject: Disk errors
Wrote these words of wisdom:

> I am getting one or two of these a day on a Western Digital 80GB disk
> How concerned should I be?  The machine seems reliable otherwise.
>=20
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=3D610922=
55
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=3D613143=
67
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=3D713961=
5

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On 9/30/2005 4:43:22 PM, Gerard Seibert Replied:

I am not sure what free disk diagnostic programs are available, but I
have used Steve Gibson's 'SpinRite' < http://grc.com > with great
success in the past. If there is something wrong with the disk or
controller, it will find it. Just run it at the highest level, level 5
I believe.


--=20
Gerard Seibert
gerard@seibercom.net



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