Hi, Please read on although this is a long one... I might panic and coredump myself if I don't get this fixed.
I have a one year old Hitachi Travelstar 60GB/4200RPM disk. This night and since then, I get these errors: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=48926527 ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=48926527 ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out or ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=50299455 ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=50299455 The LBA number varies, but otherwise it is consistent. Eventually the device is removed from /dev and no disk is accessible, although mount shows mounted devices. I have booted in single user mode and run fsck manually multiple times to correct all found errors, most errors are on /, /usr and some on /var, yet the problem reappears. I have tried to reinstall, toggling newfs to recreate /, /usr and /var hoping that any bad blocks or sectors would be removed or marked unusable. But the problem remains. Is there a way I can reformat or fix the disk so that broken areas will not be used again? Please, how far from the grave are my data? Any suggestion on which new drive to choose? I have looked at Western Digital Scorpio WD600VE 60 GB. Given the mentioned error, does this indicate an error that would be covered by standard guarantee? after all the disk is just one year old... The system: FreeBSD 5.4, Epia Mini-ITX CL1000, 256MB RAM, 60 GB HDD. Thanks, Erik GnuPG: http://www.locolomo.org/home/norgaard/norgaard.gpg.asc pub 1024D/11D11F9E 2003-08-15 Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = C394 81C4 D137 EEE5 39BE 82D5 3E6B FB3E 11D1 1F9E _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"