Re: Device timeout reading fsbn ...

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 03:03:05AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> What does it mean when I get such messages, and then I can't do anything more except reboot (not clean, I need to run fsck_ffs on partitions that had been mounted)?
> 
> To reboot, I have to Reset, or Ctrl-Alt-Esc into debugger, followed by reboot.
> 
> Does it mean the hard drive is going bad, about to go completely bad?

You could check smart datas; but yes it usually means that the drive is
going bad.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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