installworld error: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY, DSC, ERROR> error=40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=28071584

[Garrett Cooper]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

...

> Is my disk dying?

Uncorrectable read errors suggest yes (especially because the LBA
varies between the two error messages). I would definitely backup your
data at the very least, and as others suggested use smartmontools [via
a livecd?].
Cheers,
-Garrett