On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:21:04 +0000, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
>>> For the last 4-days, our (otherwise OK) 5.4-RELEASE machine has been
>>> reporting:
>>>
>>> Feb 12 12:08:05 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left)
>>> LBA=2701279
>>> Feb 13 00:08:51 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left)
>>> LBA=2701279
>>> Feb 13 12:09:38 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left)
>>> LBA=2963331
>>> Feb 14 00:10:24 : ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left)
>>> LBA=2705947
>>>
>>> So -- can anyone help track this down?
>>
>>
>> It sounds like a hardware issue. Install
>> /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools and "ask" the drive to see whats up.
>
>I installed 'smartmontools' but haven't used as yet. I've been waiting to
>see what happens -- the "problem" simply stopped. There've been no "ad0:
>TIMEOUT" messages for 3-days.
The errors get logged in the drive so you dont have to wait for more
errors to happen. Start it running now so you can see if any of the
"bad" counters are changing as well as to ask the drive what it was.
My guess is you have some bad sectors the drive remapped.
---Mike
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