From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 27 13:44:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from berbee.com (berbee.com [205.173.176.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B3D737B409 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 13:44:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Debug (berbee.com [205.173.176.16]) by berbee.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id f9RKiCu26044; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:44:12 -0500 Message-Id: <200110272044.f9RKiCu26044@berbee.com> To: Nils Holland , Rob Zietlow , Questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: zietlow@berbee.com Subject: Re: Lowlevel format Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 20:44:12 GMT X-Mailer: Endymion MailMan Standard Edition v3.0.22 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 Heh...great memory issue....well being the only computer I own with this type of memory that's going to be great :-) along with the fact that it already has 48 installed...hopefully they are 16's that I can swap out, been a while since I have been in this box. Thanks for the suggestions. Rob > On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Rob Zietlow wrote: > > > Anyone familar with a utility that will perform a low level format on a hard > > disk before an install? I believe that I am having issues with my hard disk > > and I would like to give this a try. 5 times I have installed and gotten 5 > > different sefaults when I try to run make buildworld, but install make > > buildworld works fine on another spare computer around the house, so I am > > pretty sure it isn't anything with cvsup. > > A HDD low level format will almost surely not make your segfaults go away > - in fact, I bet everything I own on that ;-) Your problem, so the > segfaults are most likely caused by a hardware flaw. These little memory > modules are always the first things to blame when this happens. So, I > suggest that you take the RAM modules out of the machine that has the > problems and put some other ones in there. If make buildworld works now, > you can be sure that your RAM was causing the problem. The only thing > remaining to be found out is which of your modules to throw in the trash > can. In order to find that out, you'd be best off by simply swapping, > piece by piece, your RAM modules. In the end you should see that you only > get the problem when a certain module is in your machine. > > Other causes for segfaults during make buildworld could be overclocking, > or problems with other hardware components. The hard disk should, however, > not be the cause, and a low level format would definately not change > anything. > > Greetings > Nils > > > Nils Holland > Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany > http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message