Re: 'Hard error reading fsbn' in 5.1 but not 5.0?

From: Eric Anderson (anderson_at_centtech.com)
Date: 07/16/03

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    Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:00:40 -0500
To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org>

    Darren Pilgrim wrote:
    > Just now, my 120GB western digital, immediately upon the mounting of all
    > filesystems during startup, made a faint "click", then my screen filled with
    > errors of the form:
    >
    > ad6: hard error reading fsbn -# of -#--# error=10
    >
    > That's not an exact quote, of course, since the messages scrolled by so fast I
    > couldn't actually read parts of them. Those # signs are in place of large
    > numbers (most were 12-18 digits). This was in 5.1-R, fresh install, in the
    > first 15G of the disk, just after having booted into DOS to create some DOS
    > partitions after the FreeBSD slice.
    >
    > I booted back into 5.0, and am presently writing across the entire disk with
    > this command:
    >
    > fdisk -I /dev/ad6 && dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad6s1 bs=1m
    >
    > At more than 33 minutes into it at 24+MB/sec, there have been no such errors and
    > the portion of the disk that was being mounted has already been covered by
    > zeros.

    Darren - I've seen this before (actually, on western digital drives) a
    few times, and I'll tell you it's never good. Each time, I thought
    "maybe it's a bug somewhere in the OS" because I could rebuild the OS on
    the drive, and the error would seem to disappear - for awhile. Then the
    drive would get worse, and rapidly deteriorate into a door stop.

    I'm not sure if it's software or not, but I would double check your
    backups and start making plans to swap the drive.

    Eric 

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