Re: faulty disk?

From: Sven (no_at_spam.com)
Date: 06/30/04

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    Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 10:47:25 GMT
    
    

    Fixed it. On one side it was a problem that the disk did not support
    UDMA and once this was fixed it using atacontrol then turned out that it
    had a duff sectors - no help tool for that though.

    Sven.

    Sven wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I just test the integrity of my disk, well one partition of it, by
    > dd'ing it with:
    >
    > dd if=/dev/ad0s1g of=/dev/null bs=1024
    >
    > During the operation the kernel returned the following error messages to
    > tty0:
    >
    > ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 153474139 of 75311134-75311135 (ad0s1 bn
    > 153474139; cn 9553 tn 82 sn 28) trying PIO mode
    > ad0: DMA problem fallback to PIO mode
    > ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 153481659 of 75314894-75314895 (ad0s1 bn
    > 153481659; cn 9553 tn 201 sn 51) status=59 error=40
    >
    > Still being a bit of newbie I don't fully understand this message. Does
    > it imply that the ad0 is damaged (has damaged sectors) or is it the
    > controller since DMA access came up?
    >
    > Any help would be much appreciated - if you can point me to
    > documentation about this, that would already be great...
    >
    > Cheers,
    >
    > Sven.


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