Re: imminent disk failure ?

2005-04-24 Thread Ed Stover
Forgive my top post SMART tools are in ports /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools I would also try going into single user mode and running fsck on the drive. If that presents unrepairable errors then try low level tools from your drive's manufacturer. I have brought many of drives back long enough t

Re: imminent disk failure ?

2005-04-14 Thread ALeine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > /kernel: ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > > Could this message mean this disk is giving its last breaths ? Check to see if some part of the system is not overheating due to a failed fan somewhere. Also check the cabling and the SMART status of the

Re: imminent disk failure ?

2005-04-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, you never can exclude it, but did you check the cabling? It is not always the drive itself. Erich H. S. wrote: Hi gang, I have a server running 4.X for almost two years now, without problems - rock solid as it should be - yesterday the server became unresponsive, now that I have access again, a

imminent disk failure ?

2005-04-14 Thread H. S.
Hi gang, I have a server running 4.X for almost two years now, without problems - rock solid as it should be - yesterday the server became unresponsive, now that I have access again, and while checking the logs, I found this as the last message before the unresponsiveness: /kernel: ad0: READ comm