Bug 16495

Summary:	Period soft disk errors
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	rhughes <rhughes>
Component:	i386	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description rhughes 2000-01-31 19:10:01 UTC

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

Fix: 

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

Comment 1 Sheldon Hearn 2000-02-16 08:13:25 UTC

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.

Comment 2 wkb 2000-04-07 15:46:38 UTC

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
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Comment 3 nbm freebsd_committer

2000-08-06 00:28:26 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Feedback timeout - Sheldon suggested it was bad hardware, and there was 
no reply.  Wilko suggested it was closed, and there still was no reply.