From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 1 13:31:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45FC116A500 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:31:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: from smtp110.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp110.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 372F143C9D for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:31:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from heli@mikestammer.com) Received: (qmail 82319 invoked from network); 1 Dec 2006 13:31:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.mikestammer.com) (mikestammer@sbcglobal.net@68.249.189.132 with login) by smtp110.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Dec 2006 13:31:11 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: D3zAqOUVM1lO2mkUAhX2fX7WW5qCk62KfvSS1OhaJ22Is24qdBPceMAMMqORpmsQOeEmEn6NIFPWO_oaemaPnEuNSYVa70GTcHbRrm4zZRVKQ55p16LpgQ-- Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D5FA1146A; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:31:10 -0600 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mikestammer.com Received: from mail.mikestammer.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.middleearth.mikestammer.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id RjXT3zMZaGeS; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:31:08 -0600 (CST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: eric) by mail.mikestammer.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C57C11465; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:31:08 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <45702E9A.1080303@mikestammer.com> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:31:06 -0600 From: Eric User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pietro Cerutti References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Should I stop trusting my disk drive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:31:17 -0000 Pietro Cerutti wrote: > Hi List, > HP compaq nx7000 laptop, > FreeBSD gahr-laptop 6.2-RC1 FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 #2: Wed Nov 29 13:45:17 > CET 2006 root@gahr-laptop:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GAHR i386 > > since a few days I have problems with my disk drive, a FUJITSU > MHT2060AH/006C: > > ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=75192848 > ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=75192848 > ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51 > error=84 LBA=75192848 > g_vfs_done():ad0s2f[WRITE(offset=12332400640, length=16384)]error = 5 > > This four line are repeated in my /var/log/messages several times in a > short time slice, with only the LBA value changing. > > I sometimes have spontaneous reboot, no kernel dumps, and I had to > disable soft-updates to prevent filesystem corruptions.. > > So, should I consider buying myself a new harddisk, or it's possible > that the problem resides in the filesystem layer? > > Thanx in advance, > regards > get smartmontools from the ports and see how it looks from a SMART perspective.