ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

[Guido Demmenie]

On Mar 30, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Wood, Russell wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
>> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Guido Demmenie
>> Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 3:00 PM
>> To: Christian Walther
>> Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions
>> Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Guido
>
> When you have a suspected faulty hard drive, the last thing you  
> want to
> do is use it.

> - Russell

Can you tell me why?

--
Guido