From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 5 15:57:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC06437B765 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:57:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA55870; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 08:27:14 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 08:27:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Brian Budnick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard Drive Problem! Message-ID: <20000606082714.B55519@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Monday, 5 June 2000 at 11:17:06 -0600, Brian Budnick wrote: > > > i have a hard drive that seems to be having fits or something. Every > hour or so I get the following in my /var/log/messages: > > Jun 5 09:26:13 demon /kernel: ad2: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# 721135 retrying > Jun 5 09:26:13 demon /kernel: ad2: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# 721695 retrying > Jun 5 09:26:13 demon /kernel: ad2: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# 722031 retrying > Jun 5 09:26:13 demon /kernel: ad2: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# 722367 retrying > Jun 5 09:26:13 demon /kernel: ad2: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# 786671 retrying > Jun 5 09:26:13 demon /kernel: ad2: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# 786671 retrying > Jun 5 09:26:13 demon /kernel: ad2: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# 788015 retrying > Jun 5 09:26:13 demon last message repeated 2 times > Jun 5 09:26:13 demon /kernel: ad2: UDMA ICRC READ ERROR blk# > 788015ata1-master: WARNING: WAIT_READY active=ATA_ACTIVE_ATA > Jun 5 09:26:13 demon /kernel: falling back to PIO mode > > then i ran the following: > [root@demon /sbin]# fsck -f /dev/ad2s1e > ** /dev/ad2s1e (NO WRITE) > ** Last Mounted on /ad2 > ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes > ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames > ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity > ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts > ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups > 4691 files, 148820 used, 4678063 free (1615 frags, 584556 blocks, 0.0% > fragmentation) > [root@demon /sbin]# > > So i'm assuming that the hard drive passed or something. fsck won't help there. It just checks the file system structures. > Am i missing some better command to have it do an entire search? I can't think of anything offhand. > Any other ideas what might be going on? The message is pretty straightforward. It even gives you the locations of the errors. You have CRC errors when reading specific data blocks. About the only thing that might help is a low-level format. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message