Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:15:19 +0200 From: Guido Demmenie <rottweilertje@rottnic.nl> To: "Wood, Russell" <Russell.Wood@rac.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying? Message-ID: <BBA2B93E-0493-4812-94F3-21522E771072@rottnic.nl> In-Reply-To: <D6B5375CBC761B4BAD78E414B4BB55729101BC@mercury.rac.com.au> References: <14989d6e0703291420y1ed229dej7e2808a859f6efa6@mail.gmail.com> <B43905CF-7FE8-4A6F-8805-B15DE2C2EAB3@rottnic.nl> <D6B5375CBC761B4BAD78E414B4BB55729101BC@mercury.rac.com.au>
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On Mar 30, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Wood, Russell wrote: >> -----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? >> >> >> On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Christian Walther wrote: >> >>> 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=13554983 >>> Mar 29 21:02:34 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 >>> retry left) LBA=35376691 >>> >> >> 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. >> >> -- >> Guido > > When you have a suspected faulty hard drive, the last thing you > want to > do is use it. > - Russell Can you tell me why? -- Guido
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