On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:15:08PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > On my screen, there were messages like the followings comeing up. I have to > reboot mutiple times to get it boot up normally. Does this mean I have to > replace the disk which is a relatively new disk (1-2 years)? Any simple way > to > fix it and to avoid the time consuming task? > > > ad0: 39205MB <Maxtor 6EXXXXX> [79656/16/63] at ata0-master WDMA2 > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 131199 > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 131199 status=59 error=40 > ad0: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 11272319 status=59 error=40 > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 11272319 status=59 error=40 > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 11272319 status=59 error=40 > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 131199 status=59 error=40 > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 3473535 status=59 error=40 > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 9240703 status=59 error=40 > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 17367167 status=59 error=40 > ad0: HARD READ ERROR blk# 17760383 status=59 error=40
I suspect that you have bad sectors on your hard disk drive (and many of them). A good tool to use is Segate's Seatools (http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html). Just burn the Seatools Desktop edition to CDROM and boot from it. - Russell _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"