Disk problem at install (Signal 11).

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:49:22AM +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just come to install FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a new machine.  It's
> got four disks in it, but right now I'm only working with one (ad0),
> which is a 30GB disk that's been lying about for a bit.  I'm getting:
> 
> DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions
> ad0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 0 status=51 error=04
> DEBUG: Signal 11 caught!  That's bad!
> 
> on the debug console just after I hit okay after defining my slices.
> I'm guessing this is a hardware problem (well, the ``hard error'' gives
> that away) but does anybody know if this is very serious, or... ?  Can I
> work around it, or is the disk for the bin?

The disk is failing..pitch it.

Kris
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