Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 07:55:59 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@sinbad.net> To: "ro0t" <root@unixhideout.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: any idea what this means? Message-ID: <20020625155600.0CA6C20E93@yeoman.sinbad.net> In-Reply-To: <CFEBLHJHLOMLJJPJBALJIEANCAAA.root@unixhideout.com> References: <CFEBLHJHLOMLJJPJBALJIEANCAAA.root@unixhideout.com>
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On Monday 24 June 2002 11:53 pm, ro0t wrote:
> On Monday 24 June 2002 11:13 pm, ro0t wrote:
>
> ad0s1d: hard error reading fsbn 135917743 of 29169720-29169723 (ad0s1 bn
> 135917743; cn 8460 tn 124 sn 31) status=59 error=40
> I have never gotten this error before, is it the hard disk failing? if so
> why is it just one partition doing it? please respond to
> root@unixhideout.com as i am not on the list. Thanks.
>
>
> That's not a good sign. It's not unusual for HD problems to start on one
> partition. I would back up your drive and also check your cables for
> tightness.
>
> Beech
>
>
> Well i figured it wasn't a good sign. I tried "badsect" and it didnt do
> me much good. I just hate to toss a 60 gig drive in the trash. But now more
> blocks are just failing. This system has been running a year without any
> errors. When i bought the motherboard, i bought the "ABIT KT7A-RAID" for
> future plans, looks like the future is now. ill buy dual drives and raid it
> up. Now im only left with the decision of whether to buy yet *more* maxtor
> drives. It appears at least from my experience that the only hard drives
> that permanently die on me in what seems a short time is maxtor drives.. My
> seagate is still kicking like a champ. Any suggestions on what new brand i
> buy? =] And lastly thanks for your response.
>
I would also recommend Seagate, they seem to hold up better in production
machines than do Maxtor. Above all stay away from IBM. We have three of them
that were bad almost right from the box, and IBM is not being nice about
replacing them. I have beter things to do than a myriad of tests just to get
an RMA. Being new drives I figure they should give us the benefit of the
doubt and test them themselves. One they did replace had bad sectors right
out of the box.
Beech
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