machine is unusable with panic: vrele: negative ref cnt

[Brian Feldman]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 06:08:31PM -0700, Alan Evans wrote:
> On boot I see the following on an IBM T30 laptop:
> 
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
> ad0: FAILURE - READ_MUL status=59<READY,DSC,DRQ,ERROR>
> error=40<UNCORRECTABLE> LBA=376639

I would stick that drive in another machine and try to get SMART
status information from it.  There is a port for smartmontools
that can be very informative about the health of the drive.

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