Replacing a failing HD

[Gayn Winters]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Deal [mailto:craig at advantagecomputer.biz] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 7:07 AM
> To: gayn.winters at bristolsystems.com; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: Replacing a failing HD
> 
> > > > > I tried this and got the following error:
> > > > > 
> > > > > ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51<READY,DSC,ERROR> 
> > > > > error=40<UNCORRECTABLE>
> > > > > LBA=8387712
> > 
> > A couple ideas for dd:
> > 
> > Have you tried bs=512b ?
> > 
> > How about conv=noerror ?
> > 
> > 
> > -gayn 
> 
> 
> Using "bs=512b" worked. I booted to the new disk and 
> everything looks ok. I
> also ran "fsck" in single user mode, which indicated no 
> problems. Can I
> assume everything is ok, or is there anything else I should check?
> 
> Craig

I'm sure it is ok, but I'd double check the output of fdisk and
bsdlabel.  You've got some extra space now and you may want to use it.
Read the handbook on moving to a larger disk.

-gayn