Drives Dieing

Gregory Nou gregorynou at altern.org
Tue Sep 20 05:36:57 PDT 2005


Matt Juszczak wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I recently bought a 160 gig hard drive at the store after my 40 gig 
> started failing with similar messages to the ones below.  The 40 gig 
> eventually actually died after a few days (as in click click, boom, no 
> longer detecting).
>
> Now the 160 GB is giving me fsck errors all of a sudden, as seen 
> below.  Is my luck just that bad?  Is the drive in the store also 
> bad?  This just seems like it could be a bad controller or something 
> too, since its happened to two drives in a row...... and one of them 
> was a new drive.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.... if I'm gonna take the drive back to 
> the store, I'd like to do it soon.
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt Juszczak
>
>
>
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted
> WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted
> WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted
> WARNING: /hd2 was not properly dismounted
> ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> 
> error=40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=2 29575903
> ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> 
> error=40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=2 29575903
> ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> 
> error=40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=2 29575903
> ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> 
> error=40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=2 29575903
> ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> 
> error=40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=2 29575903
>
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I had this problem too. (Look in the current archive, in september, for 
a thread called "Problem with deleting files"
I was told to shutdown dma with atacontrol, and fsck -f
However, I had no chance to test it.
I just copied everything I needed, made a newfs, reinstalled the system 
(that's fast as you have all your config files), and today, it's working 
fine, again. (I previously tried to use the copy of the /usr I had made, 
but I experienced lots of problem with X. However, you may try to do it)
If you are able to backup, I think that it's a good solution.

-- 
grégory


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