ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

[Wood, Russell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Christian Walther
> Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 5:21 AM
> To: FreeBSD Users Questions
> Subject: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm seeing a lot of the following messages lately:
> 
> Mar 29 21:02:01 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
> retry left) LBA=13554983
> ...
> Mar 29 21:52:59 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
> retry left) LBA=4663
> 
> 
> Christian

You have bad sectors on your hard drive. Buy a new one now if your data
is of any importance.

- Russell


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