From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 17 2:49:31 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E03C37B401 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 02:49:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from disk.fnug.net (213.237.71.107.adsl.amb.worldonline.dk [213.237.71.107]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4D5543FAF for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 02:49:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@fnug.net) Received: from fnug.net (unknown [192.168.0.100]) by disk.fnug.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99F8A4497; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:49:28 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3E50BDCE.70204@fnug.net> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:47:42 +0100 From: "Paul A. Mayer" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Schultz Cc: freebsd-current Subject: Re: devastating 5.0R crash References: <3E50B970.8040606@fnug.net> <20030217104342.GA7156@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There were some ATA complaints, (don't recall exactly what though it was clear that there were read errors), when attempting to boot the system off the HD. I don't recall "medium error" there, and have not seen it in fsck_ffs booted from the live cd. The sector numbers I'm seeing seem to be in short sequences or in proximity, but spread in various groups with in the partitions. The /var fsck has resulted in clearing to the last phase pass, where it repeatedly asks for fsck to be rerun. I'm on /usr now. /Paul David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Paul A. Mayer : > >>I'm presently running fsck_ffs from a live cd. It fsck'ed / with some >>complaints about an unreadable sector. It's now on /var and reporting >>vast, vast numbers of sectors as unreadable, with "UNEXPECTED SOFT >>UPDATE INCONSISTENCY". I've not visited /usr yet. I hope my disk (with >>less than 800 hours of service) hasn't been somehow physically borked. >>(The windows partition boots and runs seemingly fine.) > > > If many (say, more than a track's worth) of sectors are unreadable > (e.g. you get a ``medium error''), your hard disk is probably > failing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message