ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

[Christian Walther]

On 30/03/07, Wood, Russell <Russell.Wood at rac.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Christian Walther
> > Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 5:21 AM
> > To: FreeBSD Users Questions
> > Subject: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm seeing a lot of the following messages lately:
> >
> > Mar 29 21:02:01 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
> > retry left) LBA=13554983
> > ...
> > Mar 29 21:52:59 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
> > retry left) LBA=4663
> >
> >
> > Christian
>
> You have bad sectors on your hard drive. Buy a new one now if your data
> is of any importance.
>

Thanks Russell, that was exactly what I was expecting.