Is my HD broken?
Scott Mitchell
scott+freebsd at fishballoon.org
Thu May 29 06:21:47 PDT 2003
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:26:43PM -0500, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> >From daily security mails of a FreeBSD 4.7 server I manage, I got, 9 days ago:
>
> > (da3:sym0:0:3:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 3 93 83 48 0 0 10 0
> > (da3:sym0:0:3:0): HARDWARE FAILURE info:393834f asc:40,85
> > (da3:sym0:0:3:0): Diagnostic failure: ASCQ = Component ID
> > vinum: vinum0.p1.s0 is crashed by force
> > vinum: vinum0.p1 is faulty
> > fatal:vinum0.p1.s0 read error, block 59474697 for 8192 bytes
> > vinum0.p1.s0: user buffer block 59474432 for 8192 bytes
> > vinum: vinum0.p1.s0 is stale by force
>
> I did vinum start vinum0.p1 and everything went as good as expected.
>
> Yesterday I got it once more:
>
> > (da3:sym0:0:3:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 4 3c a1 c8 0 0 10 0
> > (da3:sym0:0:3:0): HARDWARE FAILURE info:43ca1c8 asc:40,85
> > (da3:sym0:0:3:0): Diagnostic failure: ASCQ = Component ID
> > vinum: vinum0.p1.s0 is crashed by force
> > vinum: vinum0.p1 is faulty
> > fatal:vinum0.p1.s0 read error, block 70558089 for 8192 bytes
> > vinum0.p1.s0: user buffer block 70557824 for 8192 bytes
> > vinum: vinum0.p1.s0 is stale by force
>
> I'm doing vinum start right now and I'm quite sure it will work ok.
> However, I'm a little worried: can my disk be broken?
Very likely.
> It's pretty new and still under warranty, so I'd like to change it before
> anything breaks badly, *if it is*. Can I possibly blame the controller
> (it's a Tekram DC-390U2W)? Wouldn't it be strange, since it's always the
> same HD (out of 4) that shows this problem?
I guess it _could_ be the controller... you'd have to swap the disk to find
out for sure.
> Any diagnostic tool I can use?
Run the disk manufacturer's diagnostic utility on it. These are usually
on a bootable floppy, so you might want to pull the suspect drive and do
this on a less essential machine.
Scott
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