From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Dec 14 18: 0: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (wall-gw.polstra.com [206.213.73.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE3737B417; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 18:00:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBF203088401; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 18:00:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) id fBF203608508; Fri, 14 Dec 2001 18:00:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 18:00:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200112150200.fBF203608508@vashon.polstra.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: msmith@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about a strange hardware problem In-Reply-To: <200112150143.fBF1hLb05808@mass.dis.org> References: <200112150143.fBF1hLb05808@mass.dis.org> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <200112150143.fBF1hLb05808@mass.dis.org>, Mike Smith wrote: > > The system has been up for 317 days. It seems like if the problem > > were in the RAM (the obvious place), it would have crashed by now. > > That's not a given at all. Agreed. I'm just playing a guessing game. > > Given all that, it seems to me that the problem must be in the drive > > electronics of da0. What do you think? As a test, I've moved the > > files that always show the errors over to da1 for a while, to see if > > that fixes it. > > That's a good test, and I'd want to see the results of it before making > any more judgements, although you might just be masking the problem. 8( I'll let you know what happens. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message