Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:47:42 +0100 From: "Paul A. Mayer" <paul@fnug.net> To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: devastating 5.0R crash Message-ID: <3E50BDCE.70204@fnug.net> References: <3E50B970.8040606@fnug.net> <20030217104342.GA7156@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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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 <paul@fnug.net>: > >>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
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