Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 14:17:54 +0930 (CST) From: "Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net> To: grog@FreeBSD.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does 'ad0: HARD READ ERROR' imply impending disk failure? Message-ID: <1201.10.0.0.3.993185274.squirrel@grover.logicsquad.net> In-Reply-To: <20010622122059.S57186@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010622122059.S57186@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 21 June 2001 at 17:46:28 +0930, Paul A. Hoadley wrote: > >> Jun 21 16:35:42 grover /kernel: ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 13634000 >> status=59 error=40 >> Jun 21 16:35:46 grover /kernel: ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 13634000 >> status=59 error=40 > > This message is pretty specific. It comes from the disk, not the IDE > controller, so you can assume that it's really a disk problem. It's > possible that a low-level format could recover something, though. Thanks for the answer. I'm going to bite the bullet and buy a new disk. In an attempt to salavge the current one, would you recommend a low level format over trying badsect(8)? -- Paul. mailto:paulh@logicsquad.net mailto:paul.hoadley@student.adelaide.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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