hard drive errors

[Jason Henson]

On 01/20/05 19:21:13, David Bear wrote:
> I am receiving the following errors on my hard drive. This appears to
> affect some file in /var/log. My question is twofold. 1) shouldn't  
> ufs
> notice this sector as being unuseable and mark it offlimites? 2) if
> not, is there a way to mark it so manually?
> 
> 
> ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 19674311 of 6765124-6765135 (ad0s1 bn
> 19674311; cn 1618 tn 16 sn 41) status=59 error=40
> ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 6765124 (ad0s1 bn 6765124; cn 556 tn
> 74 sn 58) status=59 error=40
> ad0s1h: hard error reading fsbn 88412159 of 35809248-35809251 (ad0s1
> bn 88412159; cn 7271 tn 64 sn 38) status=59 error=40
> ad0s1h: hard error reading fsbn 35809251 (ad0s1 bn 35809251; cn 2945
> tn 15 sn 51) status=59 error=40
> ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 19674303 of 6765120-6765133 (ad0s1 bn
> 19674303; cn 1618 tn 16 sn 33) status=59 error=40
> ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 6765124 (ad0s1 bn 6765124; cn 556 tn
> 74 sn 58) status=59 error=40
> 
>


Checkout ports/sysutils/smartmontools/ if your drive supports smart.   
It will give you the health and a lot of info about the drive and any  
problems it is having.