> 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 :) -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
