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Date:      Thu, 8 Nov 2007 22:19:14 +0100
From:      "Claus Guttesen" <kometen@gmail.com>
To:        "David Naylor" <blackdragon@highveldmail.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Harddisk failure causes system crash, please help
Message-ID:  <b41c75520711081319y7eb231s7a3180e7e2179a95@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <b53f6f940711081240q7100a08djae76b560cddfed6f@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <b53f6f940711081240q7100a08djae76b560cddfed6f@mail.gmail.com>

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> I have been using this laptop for a few months now with FreeBSD without any
> problems with the hard disk however today as I installed editors/vim the
> system crashed (without a core dump or any message).
>
> When ever the system boots (and proceeds to do a fsck on ad0e (/usr)) it
> also crashes without any message.  I have tried the following commands:
>
> # dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/null bs=1M     ( System crashes)
>
> # smartctl -C -t short     ( Succeeds )
> # smartctl -C -t long     ( Failes with a message: ad0: FAILED - SMART timed
> out)
>

Corrupt disk?

-- 
regards
Claus

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom,
the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner.

Shakespeare



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