Drives Dieing

Matt Juszczak matt at atopia.net
Tue Sep 20 05:44:01 PDT 2005



>> 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
>
> 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.
>


But smartctl (smart test) shows drive failure in the short test?  Isn't 
that internal to the drive?

Also, if this is the case, could this just be bad luck of two drives in 
a row?  Or could something be wrong with my hardware causing these 
drives to die? (controller?)

-Matt


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