Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:00:40 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'Hard error reading fsbn' in 5.1 but not 5.0? Message-ID: <3F154C78.8020607@centtech.com> References: <20030716051629.39cce343.dmp@bitfreak.org>
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Darren Pilgrim wrote: > Just now, my 120GB western digital, immediately upon the mounting of all > filesystems during startup, made a faint "click", then my screen filled with > errors of the form: > > ad6: hard error reading fsbn -# of -#--# error=10 > > That's not an exact quote, of course, since the messages scrolled by so fast I > couldn't actually read parts of them. Those # signs are in place of large > numbers (most were 12-18 digits). This was in 5.1-R, fresh install, in the > first 15G of the disk, just after having booted into DOS to create some DOS > partitions after the FreeBSD slice. > > I booted back into 5.0, and am presently writing across the entire disk with > this command: > > fdisk -I /dev/ad6 && dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad6s1 bs=1m > > At more than 33 minutes into it at 24+MB/sec, there have been no such errors and > the portion of the disk that was being mounted has already been covered by > zeros. Darren - I've seen this before (actually, on western digital drives) a few times, and I'll tell you it's never good. Each time, I thought "maybe it's a bug somewhere in the OS" because I could rebuild the OS on the drive, and the error would seem to disappear - for awhile. Then the drive would get worse, and rapidly deteriorate into a door stop. I'm not sure if it's software or not, but I would double check your backups and start making plans to swap the drive. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Attitudes are contagious, is yours worth catching? ------------------------------------------------------------------
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