From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 10 16:42:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B12F37B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:42:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-21.mail.nl.demon.net (post-21.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3290A43EA9 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:42:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-21.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18Luxg-0007rO-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 00:42:53 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id D21A1F1A for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 01:42:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 69EF7CE3 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 01:42:33 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id C0C20225CE; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 01:42:33 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 01:42:33 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: drive problem solved? Message-ID: <20021211004233.GA495@raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 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 Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 05:45:47PM -0600, Joey Mingrone wrote: > > So my questions... Should I trust WD diagnostics? Why would fsck all of a > sudden fix the problem? ..if it did fix it? Has anyone else with the > same/similar hardware experienced these problems. > Oddly enough I was having very strange problems with a WD hard-disk recently bought..I think I sent a question about this..anyway I ran the HD diagnostics, and for certainty reformatted the whole disk with the WD facility. No problems since. My problems were not shown up by fsck, but by bizarre and differing ideas 4.7 and Linux had about the hard disk partitioning. Mmm..this was tied in with several other odd problems, some of the pilot error, and some due to an apparent inability of a FreeBSD slice to live physically next to a DOS extended partition. I have repeatedly asked about this .. but I have never received an answer from anyone. So I just assume it must be true. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message