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Date:      Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:31:06 -0600
From:      Eric <heli@mikestammer.com>
To:        Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Should I stop trusting my disk drive?
Message-ID:  <45702E9A.1080303@mikestammer.com>
In-Reply-To: <e572718c0612010401l71d388f4lfe312fa569cb7e1f@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <e572718c0612010401l71d388f4lfe312fa569cb7e1f@mail.gmail.com>

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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<READY,DSC,ERROR>
> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> 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.



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