Disk errors

Gerard Seibert gerard at seibercom.net
Fri Sep 30 13:48:23 PDT 2005


On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:31:58 -0400, Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays at rogers.com>
Subject: Disk errors
Wrote these words of wisdom:

> I am getting one or two of these a day on a Western Digital 80GB disk
> How concerned should I be?  The machine seems reliable otherwise.
> 
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=61092255
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=61314367
> ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=7139615

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On 9/30/2005 4:43:22 PM, Gerard Seibert Replied:

I am not sure what free disk diagnostic programs are available, but I
have used Steve Gibson's 'SpinRite' < http://grc.com > with great
success in the past. If there is something wrong with the disk or
controller, it will find it. Just run it at the highest level, level 5
I believe.


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Gerard Seibert
gerard at seibercom.net


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