> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Vinco Maldini wrote:
>
> > 1) What does the result below mean? (Is my drive failing? Why can't I
> > clean the FS?)
> >
> [ ... snip ... ]
> > CANNOT READ: BLK 152744928
> > UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
> [ ... snip ... ]
> >
> > THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 152744946,
> [ ... etc, etc, snip ... ]
> >
>
> Were there any kernel messages displayed on the consoles (the bright white
> text)?  If you don't have console access, run the /sbin/dmesg command.  If
> you see any ad2 read errors from the console, then you likely have a bad
> drive.  On the other hand, if you don't see any errors being reported by
> the kernel, then the "CANNOT READ" errors are probably just caused by
> incompleted meta-data writes to the drive.  However, "THE FOLLOWING DISK
> SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ" makes me think it is a hardware problem.
>
>
> > 2) Are there any BSD tools for reading the SMART data off the Hard Disk
> > so that I can see whether it is about to fail or currently experiencing
> > HW failure. Any other ways to check for bad sectors?
>
> I thought that someone asked this same questions a few days ago, but I
> can't find it in the archives.  I'm honestly not sure if anything like
> that is available.  Searching the FreeBSD site did not yield any results.
> My best suggestions is to check google.

Or check with [EMAIL PROTECTED]  If there was something like this out there,
he'd know :)

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Matt Emmerton


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