ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

[Guido Demmenie]

On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Christian Walther wrote:

> 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 21:02:34 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
> retry left) LBA=35376691
>

You also might want to give smartmontools a try. This can be found
in the portscollection (sysutils/smartmontools). This will query
the SMART tool built in most IDE drives. You can let the harddrive
do a selfcheck. And gather some statistics from your drive.

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Guido
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