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 www.rottnic.nl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. If you want additional confirmation (which I doubt you need as what you have printed is ample) then try Seatools from Seagate. It's free and runs of a CDROM. - Russell DISCLAIMER: Disclaimer. This e-mail is private and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise us by return e-mail immediately, and delete the e-mail and any attachments without using or disclosing the contents in any way. The views expressed in this e-mail are those of the author, and do not represent those of this company unless this is clearly indicated. You should scan this e-mail and any attachments for viruses. This company accepts no liability for any direct or indirect damage or loss resulting from the use of any attachments to this e-mail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
On Mar 30, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Wood, Russell wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
-Original Message- From: Guido Demmenie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 3:15 PM To: Wood, Russell Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying? On Mar 30, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Wood, Russell wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Sure. If you install software when your hard drive has bad sectors then the software your installing may be written around those areas, possibly won't run properly (if at all) and cause the system to become unstable which would then result in further data loss. Also, bad sectors are like a disease and continue to `spread' the more it's used. - Russell DISCLAIMER: Disclaimer. This e-mail is private and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise us by return e-mail immediately, and delete the e-mail and any attachments without using or disclosing the contents in any way. The views expressed in this e-mail are those of the author, and do not represent those of this company unless this is clearly indicated. You should scan this e-mail and any attachments for viruses. This company accepts no liability for any direct or indirect damage or loss resulting from the use of any attachments to this e-mail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
On 30/03/07, Wood, Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 Thanks for pointing me to this port, I'll give it a try this evening. When you have a suspected faulty hard drive, the last thing you want to do is use it. If you want additional confirmation (which I doubt you need as what you have printed is ample) then try Seatools from Seagate. It's free and runs of a CDROM. - Russell Well, there isn't that much sensitive/important information on the disk, but moving the system over to a fresh disk save me the work of rebuilding the entire system again. And I was just at a local computer store yesterday, buying a bigger disk as a replacement for the disk this thread is about. So I'm quite lucky here. It's just a pity that I was planning a bigger HDD exchange session. The broken disk was supposed to end up a T21. Well, I guess I'll have to get another one. (Originally I didn't want to put more money in the old machine, but its Harddrive is severily damaged but the machine itself performs well for its owner.) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
Christian Walther wrote: 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 Just thought I should point out that you can get errors like this if your disk drive *cable* is faulty or has wiggled loose. I spent hours testing a 250Gb drive with manufacturer tools only to solve the problem by replacing the SATA cable. I suspect the cable was fine and had just wiggled loose. SATA may be thinner, but they're still a bugger to route because they pull out so easily. Even an IDE cable could have gone faulty or wiggled out; but in 15 years that's never happened to me whereas I've seen 2 SATA cables wiggle out in an untouched tower case in two years. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 09:15:19AM +0200, Guido Demmenie wrote: On Mar 30, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Wood, Russell wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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? Because it will potentially make it fail totally sooner. Hard disk failures tend to be rapidly progressive once they get bad enough to start showing up in messages. You want to get your important stuff off it as soon as possible and certainly without encouraging the disk to die before that can be done.Once you have made sure of your important data, then go ahead and play with it and see what you can find out. jerry -- Guido ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:44:33 +0100 Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Walther wrote: 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 Just thought I should point out that you can get errors like this if your disk drive *cable* is faulty or has wiggled loose. I spent hours testing a 250Gb drive with manufacturer tools only to solve the problem by replacing the SATA cable. I suspect the cable was fine and had just wiggled loose. SATA may be thinner, but they're still a bugger to route because they pull out so easily. Even an IDE cable could have gone faulty or wiggled out; but in 15 years that's never happened to me whereas I've seen 2 SATA cables wiggle out in an untouched tower case in two years. This happened to me a couple of months ago, the problem went away after I reseated the SATA connectors. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
On 30/03/07, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Walther wrote: 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 Just thought I should point out that you can get errors like this if your disk drive *cable* is faulty or has wiggled loose. Yes, I know these defects, but this is an IBM Laptop which doesn't has a cable to connect the HDD to the mainboard. I just checked it as I replaced the disk. ;-) So the system is up and running again. Everything went really smooth: I booted FreeBSIE, dumped all filesystem to a NFS share, replaced the disk, formatted the new disk, and restored everything. Rebooted the machine, and here we are. :-) Thanks everybody for your advice and information. BTW: If I understand smartmontools correctly the disks firmware counted 67 r/w errors. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 DISCLAIMER: Disclaimer. This e-mail is private and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please advise us by return e-mail immediately, and delete the e-mail and any attachments without using or disclosing the contents in any way. The views expressed in this e-mail are those of the author, and do not represent those of this company unless this is clearly indicated. You should scan this e-mail and any attachments for viruses. This company accepts no liability for any direct or indirect damage or loss resulting from the use of any attachments to this e-mail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
On 30/03/07, Wood, Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. Thanks Russell, that was exactly what I was expecting. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
