imminent disk failure ?

[Ed Stover]

Forgive my top post <very lazy>
SMART tools are in ports
/usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools

I would also try going into single user mode and running fsck on the
drive. If that presents unrepairable errors then try low level tools
from your drive's manufacturer. I have brought many of drives back long
enough to retrieve the data off of them. I don't recommend using the
drives for any more then target practice after that. <I have been burned
too many times> lol

On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 09:31 -0700, ALeine wrote:
> security at revolutionsp.com wrote: 
>  
> > /kernel: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> >
> > Could this message mean this disk is giving its last breaths ?
> 
> Check to see if some part of the system is not overheating due to
> a failed fan somewhere. Also check the cabling and the SMART status
> of the drive. There were some issues with DMA and UDMA133 mode, so
> you may want to try to rule out those as possible causes first by
> putting hw.ata.ata_dma=0 into /boot/loader.conf and forcing UDMA100
> mode with atacontrol(8) (see man 8 atacontrol for details).
> 
> BTW, you may want to consider posting such questions to
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org in the future as this is not the
> most appropriate list for such questions.
> 
> ALeine
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