Re: Disk errors

2009-12-28 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I can't believe you tried fujitsu and not hitachi (bought from IBM) or Maxtor. As previously posted, once settled on a lower dma mode this problem usually goes away but must indicate a problem. I wonder if your motherboard is powering down the drive occassionally, possibly resetting this

Re: Hard disk errors - OpenBSD reports errors, SMART says all is well. Problem identified.

2009-12-28 Thread John O'Connor
First of all, thanks very much to everyone who replied. With all of the suggestions, I was able to identify the cause. The disk, the motherboard and OpenBSD were all blameless. The SATA cable had partly worked its way out of the connector. The data connection was just on the edge of going bad.

Hard disk errors - OpenBSD reports errors, SMART says all is well.

2009-12-26 Thread John O'Connor
Hi, I am getting some strange errors from an openBSD system that I am using as a backup server. I transfer some files onto the system via ftp. (1260 files with a total size of 60G.) The transfer works OK and then I try to check the newly arrived files. The last file in the set is an md5 file

Re: Hard disk errors - OpenBSD reports errors, SMART says all is well.

2009-12-26 Thread Chris Bennett
John O'Connor wrote: Hi, I am getting some strange errors from an openBSD system that I am using as a backup server. I transfer some files onto the system via ftp. (1260 files with a total size of 60G.) The transfer works OK and then I try to check the newly arrived files. The last file in

Re: Hard disk errors - OpenBSD reports errors, SMART says all is well.

2009-12-26 Thread Jussi Peltola
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 09:07:13AM -0600, Chris Bennett wrote: SMART is not the final word. True Try running badblocks from e2fsprogs. Neither is badblocks Be sure you use it correctly. You will need the partitions unmounted for it It's rather hard to prove a disk isn't broken; a program

Re: Hard disk errors - OpenBSD reports errors, SMART says all is well.

2009-12-26 Thread Fred Crowson
On 12/26/09, John O'Connor j...@jpoc.org wrote: Hi, I am getting some strange errors from an openBSD system that I am using as a backup server. I transfer some files onto the system via ftp. (1260 files with a total size of 60G.) The transfer works OK and then I try to check the newly

Re: Hard disk errors - OpenBSD reports errors, SMART says all is well.

2009-12-26 Thread Ross Cameron
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:31 PM, John O'Connor j...@jpoc.org wrote: Hi, I am getting some strange errors from an openBSD system that I am using as a backup server. I transfer some files onto the system via ftp. (1260 files with a total size of 60G.) The transfer works OK and then I try to

Re: Disk errors

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Bennett
Chris Bennett wrote: Should I consider these errors as a disk problem or controller problem? I am backing up and moving all the files off first and then I will move disk to second computer and run badblocks on it. These errors have shown up with every boot softraid0 at root root on wd0a

Re: Disk errors

2009-12-23 Thread Daniel Ouellet
I can get a large SATA disk pretty cheap, but this board doesn't accept SATA. Anyone have any thoughts on whether I should just pay more for a smaller PATA or get the SATA. If I get the SATA, I will need to buy either a SATA pci card or get a SATA to IDE adapter. Are there any problems I

Re: Disk errors

2009-12-23 Thread Chris Bennett
Daniel Ouellet wrote: I can get a large SATA disk pretty cheap, but this board doesn't accept SATA. Anyone have any thoughts on whether I should just pay more for a smaller PATA or get the SATA. If I get the SATA, I will need to buy either a SATA pci card or get a SATA to IDE adapter. Are

Disk errors

2009-12-21 Thread Chris Bennett
Should I consider these errors as a disk problem or controller problem? I am backing up and moving all the files off first and then I will move disk to second computer and run badblocks on it. These errors have shown up with every boot softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b

Re: Disk errors

2009-12-21 Thread Aaron Mason
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote: Should I consider these errors as a disk problem or controller problem? I am backing up and moving all the files off first and then I will move disk to second computer and run badblocks on it. These errors

Re: Disk errors

2009-12-21 Thread Paul M
On 22/12/2009, at 4:28 PM, Chris Bennett wrote: Should I consider these errors as a disk problem or controller problem? I am backing up and moving all the files off first and then I will move disk to second computer and run badblocks on it. These errors have shown up with every boot