Disk Error

[Doug Hardie]

I doubt that its dying.  There is only one bad sector.  The drive is in 
constant use.  Its ran at 100% for almost 12 hours while copying the 
files and no errors were detected.  Its always the same sector with the 
error.


On Mar 7, 2005, at 09:54, Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote:

> ASAP
> 1. fsck -y
> 2. tunefs ( enable softupdate)
> 3. backup to new hard disk
> 4. remove this faulty hard disk
>
> Your hard disk is dyeing .
>
>
> Doug Hardie wrote:
>
>> I have been getting the following disk errors consistently for the 
>> last month.
>>
>>> ad2s1e: hard error reading fsbn 6934399 of 3467168-3467295 (ad2s1 bn 
>>> 6934399; cn 431 tn 164 sn 52) status=59 error=40
>>> spec_getpages:(#ad/0x20014) I/O read failure: (error=5) bp 
>>> 0xc5678f94 vp 0xcb5f3a80
>>>                size: 65536, resid: 65536, a_count: 65536, valid: 0x0
>>>                nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 504, pcount: 16
>>> vm_fault: pager read error, pid 35441 (expireover)
>>>
>>
>> How do you figure out which file has the problem?  expireover's logs 
>> are all buffered so you don't get the last partial buffer.  I don't 
>> know yet if I can mark that particular sector as bad, but if I can 
>> find the file I can at least move to someplace where it won't get 
>> deleted.  I chased through the core dump and the only directory 
>> indicated but all of those files are good.  I have also tar'd the 
>> entire news directory elsewhere and no errors were encountered.  The 
>> sector is the same every day.
>>
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