From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 17:42:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from munkboxen.mine.nu (213-152-51-194.dsl.eclipse.net.uk [213.152.51.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C137637B406 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 17:42:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from munk@localhost) by munkboxen.mine.nu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4N0fEk08667 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 23 May 2002 01:41:14 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from munk) Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 01:41:14 +0100 From: Jez Hancock To: FreeBSD questions List Subject: Re: Checking HDD disk integrity under FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020523014114.A8661@munkboxen.mine.nu> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD questions List References: <20020522233543.A8507@munkboxen.mine.nu> <3.0.5.32.20020522181303.01acd270@mail.sage-one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020522181303.01acd270@mail.sage-one.net>; from jackstone@sage-one.net on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 06:13:03PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 06:13:03PM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: > At 11:35 PM 5.22.2002 +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: > That is interesting. I am having problems with the (new) Quantum Fireballs > too with two identical 40Gig on a server. Am getting errors, especially on > the HD #2 when writing large tar gzip backups. It's (they) are hanging up > and it takes a reboot. On reboot, fsck take a long time to put thing back > together again. Methinks the BIOS is not reading the geometry properly, > or....not really sure. But, I've just ordered two new Seagates to replace > them both. I don't trust them anymore as this makes about 3 or 4 hangups > that I first thought was the tar... but after switching to gtar, the > problem didn't go away.... can't afford to keep hanging and rebooting. One > of these times fsck won't recover (salvage) them....ouch! bleh sorry think I only replied to you personally before! Anyway... bleh does anyone else know of any tools for checking disk integrity!??? Can't believe one doesn't exist in Unix ... ? Cheers :) -- Jez Hancock - munk@munkboxen.mine.nu http://munkboxen.mine.nu - FreeBSD network http://www.freebsd.org - Probably the best OS in the world... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message