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Date:      Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:56:21 -0800
From:      Josef Grosch <jgrosch@MooseRiver.com>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: This has begun to annoy me...
Message-ID:  <20080201225621.GA85052@mooseriver.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080201210744.V3129@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <a9f4a3860802011140x5d50663bgfadcbaf351c95f6d@mail.gmail.com> <20080201210744.V3129@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:08:53PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >+ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=3D4570911
> >+ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=3D42958719
> >+ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=3D113343327
> >+ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=3D117315327
> >
> >It looks like disk write errors to me, but I'm not sure.
> >
> yes it use.
>=20
> use ports/sysutils/smartmontools
>=20
> to make sure.
>=20
> print smart output and/or these errors and request replacement in your=20
> shop.


The disk is failing. Smartmontools, which is a great package, will only
tell you want you already know, that the disk is failing. I would copy
every thing important off that disk _NOW_ then go and get a replacement
disk TODAY. It's possible that the disk may spin for another 2 months or it
might burst into flames in the next 20 minutes. Either way the disk is
telling you, "I'm sick".=20

Also, what ever you do, do not power down that machine until you have
copied off the data. When you power cycle machines with disk in this state
there is a very good chance the disk will not spin back up.

I see this all the time at my job.=20


Good Luck

Josef

--=20
Josef Grosch           | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 6.3
jgrosch@MooseRiver.com |   Micro$oft free world  | Berkeley, Ca.

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