Seems like Farragut’s HD is going to say “bye bye” soon:
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=59 error=40 LBA=35000919
g_vfs_done():ad0s1a[READ(offset=17920438272, length=2048)]error = 5
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=59 error=40 LBA=35000919
g_vfs_done():ad0s1a[READ(offset=17920438272, length=2048)]error = 5
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=59 error=40 LBA=35000919
g_vfs_done():ad0s1a[READ(offset=17920438272, length=2048)]error = 5
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=59 error=40 LBA=35000919
g_vfs_done():ad0s1a[READ(offset=17920438272, length=2048)]error = 5
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=59 error=40 LBA=35000919
g_vfs_done():ad0s1a[READ(offset=17920438272, length=2048)]error = 5
I’m not sure how much will it last before being unusable; I’ll see to tighten up my backup strategies, to avoid losing data, but I’m expecting a bad adventure in the future.
Now, to change the Hard Drive is not so easy, the minimal size I can find is 250GB for €70, but the disk usage does not really call for such a size:
/dev/ad0s1a 18G 2.0G 15G 12% /
An option could be to use compactflash for storing the whole system, the problem is that it’s far from inexpensive: a 4GB compactflash card costs about €50, an already IDE-capable flash drive costs about the same, plus the price of an average CF-to-IDE adapter.
I’m not sure on what to do, especially with what I’ve been writing about lately, I’m not sure if it’s worth spending more money to get Farragut back up. Maybe I should just stop blogging and close everything down… and migrate the GIT repositories somewhere else.