Bad disk or kernel (ATA Driver) problem?

[Karl Denninger]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 11:55:24AM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 04:13 PM 19/01/2005, Karl Denninger wrote:
> >I'm having a lot of trouble believing this is an actual disk problem.  Among
> >other things, its happening at different places - not always at the same
> >block.
> 
> If you have the drives on a RELENG_5 box, try
> /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/
> Its quite handy to sort of various drive issues as well as to monitor for 
> ongoing errors via the daemon.
> 
>          ---Mike 

Very cool - didn't know that was there.  That's one very useful tool!

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