Should I stop trusting my disk drive?

[Eric]

Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> Hi List,
> HP compaq nx7000 laptop,
> FreeBSD gahr-laptop 6.2-RC1 FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 #2: Wed Nov 29 13:45:17
> CET 2006     root at gahr-laptop:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GAHR  i386
>
> since a few days I have problems with my disk drive, a FUJITSU 
> MHT2060AH/006C:
>
> ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=75192848
> ad0: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=75192848
> ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR>
> error=84<ICRC,ABORTED> LBA=75192848
> g_vfs_done():ad0s2f[WRITE(offset=12332400640, length=16384)]error = 5
>
> This four line are repeated in my /var/log/messages several times in a
> short time slice, with only the LBA value changing.
>
> I sometimes have spontaneous reboot, no kernel dumps, and I had to
> disable soft-updates to prevent filesystem corruptions..
>
> So, should I consider buying myself a new harddisk, or it's possible
> that the problem resides in the filesystem layer?
>
> Thanx in advance,
> regards
>
get smartmontools from the ports and see how it looks from a SMART 
perspective.