Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:10:14 +0000 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Reid Linnemann <lreid@a.cs.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ad WRITE_DMA timing out frequently Message-ID: <42160556.5040106@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050218150335.7B4A9A063E@csa.cs.okstate.edu> References: <20050218150335.7B4A9A063E@csa.cs.okstate.edu>
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Reid Linnemann wrote: > ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2085599 > ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=2085599 > kernel: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out > kernel: g_vfs_done():ad0s1d[WRITE(offset=52772864, length=16384)]error = 5 Looks like a dying disk. > It seems to me that a sector on the disk might be dead in the ad0s1d > slice (/var), but I want to be certain before I take further steps that > the behavior I'm experiencing is positively unrelated to the migration > to 6-CURRENT. Install sysutils/smartmontools from ports and use smartctl. Odds are that the drive has logged hundreds of errors by now. Colin Percival
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