HDD problem

onursahin1989 · May 3, 2011

When I start FreeBSD, it alerts

Code:

THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ

What should I do?

SirDice · May 3, 2011

Sounds like your hard drive needs replacing.

Imanol · May 12, 2011

Read my post here, about repairing drives with bad sectors:

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=23749

carlton_draught · May 13, 2011

If you know which drive it is, do the following to see what's wrong.

Install sysutils/smartmontools. Assumes you use sysutils/portmaster.
# portmaster sysutils/smartmontools
Do a long SMART HDD test. (where $drive is device node of your drive)
# /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -t long /dev/$drive
Wait several hours.
See the result.
# /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/$drive

da1 · May 13, 2011

And backup your data (if possible and if you don't already have a backup).