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Date:      Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:01:37 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Lewis Thompson <purple@lewiz.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Disk problem at install (Signal 11).
Message-ID:  <20030914010137.GB19051@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030913234922.GB603@lewiz.org>
References:  <20030913234922.GB603@lewiz.org>

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On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:49:22AM +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I've just come to install FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a new machine.  It's
> got four disks in it, but right now I'm only working with one (ad0),
> which is a 30GB disk that's been lying about for a bit.  I'm getting:
>=20
> DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions
> ad0: hard error cmd=3Dread fsbn 0 status=3D51 error=3D04
> DEBUG: Signal 11 caught!  That's bad!
>=20
> on the debug console just after I hit okay after defining my slices.
> I'm guessing this is a hardware problem (well, the ``hard error'' gives
> that away) but does anybody know if this is very serious, or... ?  Can I
> work around it, or is the disk for the bin?

The disk is failing..pitch it.

Kris

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