In response to "Kurt Buff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've been getting this in my daily security email from one of my boxes > for quite a while, and have been ignoring it, because of workload. > > However, it's finally annoyed me enough to pursue it. > > What would the significance of the following section be? > > zsquid.mycompany.com kernel log messages: > +++ /tmp/security.4blejPLW Fri Feb 1 03:02:08 2008 > +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=4662143 > +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=113995359 > +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=112970015 > +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=4668319 > +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=4849151 > +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=115527359 > +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=113714335 > +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=113715199 > +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=4570911 > +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=42958719 > +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=113343327 > +ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=117315327 > > It looks like disk write errors to me, but I'm not sure. > > Thoughts?
Looks like a failing disk to me. Depending on the importance of the data on that drive, make sure you're getting backups and get a new drive on order. If it's always done this, it could also be faulty or non-standard hardware (such as the SATA controller). -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
