On 09/11/2007, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, so it's probably that area of the disk which has some problem...
It may but I can confirm that FreeBSD is not handling it properly (see below)
There's a free utility called HDTune which has a sector scanner which
explicitly looks
Hi,
On 8 Nov 2007, at 20:40, David Naylor wrote:
[possible disk problem]
I have no idea what is wrong (if the disk has corrupted should the
kernel
not display error messages?). Can you please help/advise?
A flaky disk drive (rather than a corrupt filesystem on a good disk)
will not
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:40:49PM +0200, David Naylor wrote:
I have been using this laptop for a few months now with FreeBSD without any
problems with the hard disk however today as I installed editors/vim the
system crashed (without a core dump or any message).
When ever the system boots
I have been using this laptop for a few months now with FreeBSD without any
problems with the hard disk however today as I installed editors/vim the
system crashed (without a core dump or any message).
When ever the system boots (and proceeds to do a fsck on ad0e (/usr)) it
also crashes
Hi,
I have been using this laptop for a few months now with FreeBSD without any
problems with the hard disk however today as I installed editors/vim the
system crashed (without a core dump or any message).
When ever the system boots (and proceeds to do a fsck on ad0e (/usr)) it
also crashes
On 08/11/2007, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sounds like something mechanical inside of the disk is failing, or
possibly the drive firmware is somewhat buggy when it comes to handling
bad blocks. What brand/model of hard disk is this? atacontrol output
would suffice. I'm just
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 08:29:52AM +0200, David Naylor wrote:
I remember seeing a timeout of sorts once, it was while doing a dd. I
have done further dd tests and only the one slice causes this problem:
ad0e
Okay, so it's probably that area of the disk which has some problem...
broken
