Re: failing disk, or not?

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George Georgalis wrote:


> > > pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x10de, dev=0x00e4) at 1.1 irq 10
> >
> > NVIDIA  - nForce3 250 SMBus Controller ?
>
>
> Was wondering about that too... maybe it has something to do with
> the flash Memory Card Reader -- which I might be taking out because
> it takes up a hd slot.

I use an IDE adaptor for that - and *expect* errors when I am putting
an OS onto a CF.  They have very slow write cycle times,
(and a finite lifetime of writes - best mounted 'noatime')

But I presume yours is an empty socket at this time?

> > I'm puzzled:
> >
> > - ata0-master claims /dev/ad0
> >
> > - ata1-master claims /dev/acd0
> >
> > - ata2-master claims /dev/ad4
> >
> > - ata3 seems empty...
> >
> > So how do we skip /dev/ad1, /dev/ad2, and /dev/ad3 to arive at /dev/ad4?
>
>
> there is a cdrom drive on one of the primary or secondary ide channels,

Above, ata1 master.

> an ata disk hanging outside (on the other channel) 

ata0?

> and the primary
> disk is on an sata controler,

ata2?

> the flash memory slots appear as drives
> (without media) as well. 

OK - w/o media they should be skipped, just as an unconnected cable 
woudl be.

> The ordering in bios is default. if that helps
ACK.
> > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad4s3a

> > You are on slice2, presumably well up in the cylinder count.
>
> well, slice 3 if you count from 1, I'm never completely sure.

ACK.. '/dev/ad4s3a'  Mea Culpa...

I would start by disconnecting everything not essential,
see if the problem goes away - or at least changes...


Bill