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Subject: Period soft disk errors
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>Number:         16495
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Period soft disk errors
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan 31 11:10:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    Sat Aug 5 16:28:26 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Sat Aug 05 16:29:05 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Richard Hughes
>Release:        3.1 stable
>Organization:
Lilikoi Software
>Environment:
FreeBSD smtp.lilikoi.com 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #1: Tue Dec 21 15:51:06
 PST 1999     root@server.lilikoi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/LILIKOI  i386     
>Description:
Periodically, like every 3-4 days, reports of a "soft disk error" start 
to show up on the console.  These have been repairable using "fsck -p" 
but something is wrong and I don't know what that something is.

I wonder whether this is a known problem or if anyone can give me any 
pointers as to what might be causing it.  This is on a Western Digital 
3.1 gig IDE drive.

Many thanks,

Richard
>How-To-Repeat:
Just wait a few days.
>Fix:
psck -p

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: rhughes@lilikoi.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: i386/16495: Period soft disk errors 
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 10:13:25 +0200

 On Mon, 31 Jan 2000 11:07:11 PST, rhughes@lilikoi.com wrote:
 
 > Periodically, like every 3-4 days, reports of a "soft disk error" start 
 > to show up on the console.  These have been repairable using "fsck -p" 
 > but something is wrong and I don't know what that something is.
 
 Yup, your disk is failing.  First, bolstser your backup regimen.  Next,
 if it's under warranty, get it to your vendor ASAP; otherwise, replace
 it ASAP.
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 

From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, rhughes@lilikoi.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/16495: Period soft disk errors
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 16:46:38 +0200

 Is there any news to report from the hardware front? 
 
 Like Sheldon already mentioned this does not appear to be a FreeBSD 
 problem but rather a dying disk. If it was indeed hardware then I'd
 like to close the bug report.
 
 Regards,
 -- 
 Wilko Bulte 		Powered by FreeBSD  	http://www.freebsd.org
 						http://www.tcja.nl
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: nbm 
State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 5 16:28:26 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timeout - Sheldon suggested it was bad hardware, and there was 
no reply.  Wilko suggested it was closed, and there still was no reply. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16495 
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