Disk error messages (ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# xxxxxx)

[Beech Rintoul]

On Monday 02 January 2006 02:15 pm, mtang at insightbb.com wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On my screen, there were messages like the followings comeing up. I have to
> reboot mutiple times to get it boot up normally. Does this mean I have to
> replace the disk which is a relatively new disk (1-2 years)? Any simple way
> to fix it and to avoid the time consuming task?
>
>
> ad0: 39205MB <Maxtor 6EXXXXX> [79656/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2
> ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 131199
> ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 131199 status=59 error=40
> ad0: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode
> ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 11272319 status=59 error=40
> ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 11272319 status=59 error=40
> ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 11272319 status=59 error=40
> ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 131199 status=59 error=40
> ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 3473535 status=59 error=40
> ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 9240703 status=59 error=40
> ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 17367167 status=59 error=40
> ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 17760383 status=59 error=40

Check that your cables are tight. You might even try swapping your drive 
cable. Other than that it looks like your drive is failing. You do have 
backups don't you?

Beech
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