Unfortunately the answer presented itself very soon after posting the
message.
I pulled the hard drive out of the box, and tried to format it in a
Windows machine. It occurred to me that the drive had not been formated
and therefore had not had data written to all parts of the disk.
Half way
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:21:39AM +1100, Andrew Cutler wrote:
Unfortunately the answer presented itself very soon after posting the
message.
I pulled the hard drive out of the box, and tried to format it in a
Windows machine. It occurred to me that the drive had not been formated
and
I recently built a FreeBSD 4.7 Release file server that has a brand new
80GB Wester Digital 7200RPM drive in it. Yesterday the box suffered two
power outages and a possible powersurge.
Today I decided that it would be a good idea to check on the state of
the file system and the result is
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,
[ ...
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:
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?
JH I thought that someone asked this same questions a few days ago, but I
JH can't find it in
I recently built a FreeBSD 4.7 Release file server that has a brand new
80GB Wester Digital 7200RPM drive in it. Yesterday the box suffered two
power outages and a possible powersurge.
Today I decided that it would be a good idea to check on the state of
the file system and the result is
