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Date:      Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:09:02 +0800
From:      "Wood, Russell" <Russell.Wood@rac.com.au>
To:        "FreeBSD Users Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
Message-ID:  <D6B5375CBC761B4BAD78E414B4BB55729101BC@mercury.rac.com.au>
References:  <14989d6e0703291420y1ed229dej7e2808a859f6efa6@mail.gmail.com>  <B43905CF-7FE8-4A6F-8805-B15DE2C2EAB3@rottnic.nl>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Guido Demmenie
> Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 3:00 PM
> To: Christian Walther
> Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions
> Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
>=20
>=20
> On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Christian Walther wrote:
>=20
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm seeing a lot of the following messages lately:
> >
> > Mar 29 21:02:01 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
> > retry left) LBA=3D13554983
> > Mar 29 21:02:34 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
> > retry left) LBA=3D35376691
> >
>=20
> You also might want to give smartmontools a try. This can be found
> in the portscollection (sysutils/smartmontools). This will query
> the SMART tool built in most IDE drives. You can let the harddrive
> do a selfcheck. And gather some statistics from your drive.
>=20
> --
> Guido

When you have a suspected faulty hard drive, the last thing you want to
do is use it. If you want additional confirmation (which I doubt you
need as what you have printed is ample) then try Seatools from Seagate.
It's free and runs of a CDROM.

- Russell


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