correcting hard errors on IDE drive

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 03:32:25AM +0000, John wrote:
> Hello list
> 
> The system giving these errors is in a data centre. I got mailed this in my
> daily system log:
> 
> > ad0s1f: hard error reading fsbn 266219 (ad0s1 bn 266219; cn 16 tn 145 sn 44)
> status=59 error=40
> > ad0s1f: hard error reading fsbn 110559243 of 266214-266233 (ad0s1 bn
> 110559243; cn 6881 tn 253 sn 39) status=59 error=40
> > ad0s1f: hard error reading fsbn 266219 (ad0s1 bn 266219; cn 16 tn 145 sn 44)
> status=59 error=40
> > ad0s1f: hard error reading fsbn 110559231 of 266208-266221 (ad0s1 bn
> 110559231; cn 6881 tn 253 sn 27) status=59 error=40
> 
> This is an IDE drive, btw.
> 
> that's all there was. I know I need to run fsck on that partition

fsck won't repair hardware errors.  This disk is dying, you should
immediately grab what you can from it and replace it before it
deteriorates further.

Kris
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