If you are running -CURRENT, you can check the SMART status of the drives with the port sysutils/smartmontools. If the drive supports > ATA-3 commands, you should be able to see if there are errors being reported by the drive itself.
Ed On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:33, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Kris Kennaway wrote: > -- Start of PGP signed section. > > Since upgrading the bento package machines to -current I am getting > > a lot of the following errors: > > > > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> error=40<UNCORRECTABLE> > > That does look like a valid error condition from the drive... > > > 1) All my drives have performed mass suicide at once > > You know, with deathstar's you cant really rule that out :) > > > 2) ATAng is detecting errors that the ATAog did not > > That is true, the error detection is better in ATAng. > > > 3) ATAng is not trying as hard as ATAog to recover from the errors > > from the crappy drives > > Neither ATAog nor ATAnr retried uncorrectable errors... > > > 4) ATAng has a bug on this hardware. > > That we cant rule out, and it probably likely.. > > > Furthermore, I'd like to know why the panic occurred above. > > Is this on a brand new -current ? lots of things that could > cause this has been fixed... > > -Søren > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Eduard Martinescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
