Thanks, Francois.  After some testing, I've determined that drive is
definitely flaky and fortunately I'm still within the vendor return window.

Tim


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Francois Tigeot <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:22:24AM -0700, Tim Darby wrote:
> > I tried to move a big folder from one SATA drive to another and the
> machine
> > stopped responding to the point that it lost network connectivity (DF
> > 2.10.1).  After reboot, I found the following errors:
> [...]
> > kernel: (da4:ahci0:4:0:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 80 3a d6 48 0 0 80 0
> > kernel: (da4:ahci0:4:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
> > kernel: (da4:ahci0:4:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
> > kernel: (da4:ahci0:4:0:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:0,0
> [...]
> > I'm guessing this is a drive problem, not a system problem, but just
> wanted
> > to check with the experts first.  I haven't had a chance to run a drive
> > diagnostic yet.  I did try a repeat of that same mv command and it
> happened
> > again.  The drive is just a month old, FWIW.
>
> I'll say some specific parts of the magnetic platters of your drive are
> damaged and that's why you get this error every time trying to access the
> same
> files.
>
> A drive has not to be old to fail; failure during the first weeks of
> activity
> is relatively common.
> It may have been badly packaged or handled during transport or may have
> been
> badly manufactured ...
>
> --
> Francois Tigeot
>

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