Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 21:34:48 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Paul Dekkers <psd@cgu.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Mailinglist <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: soft errors and so on?! Message-ID: <36C49E78.C9D01799@tdx.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990212193224.684A-100000@chippie.cgu>
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Paul Dekkers wrote: > > Hi > > What do these soft errors mean? That my disk is going to die or that the > disk wasn't properly unmounted because some prog still wrote on it or > something? Soft errors are normally read errors that are corrected in hardware/software (by the fact the drive stores more bits than the original 'data' bits (for error checking / recovery) Be careful, your drive could be on it's way out... Or at the very least you might have bad blocks that are 'borderline' readable... Now would be a good time to make sure you backup your important data... -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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