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Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 13:33:53 -0500
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
From: Jean-Francois Routhier <jfrouthi@miranda.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Trouble with FreeBSD 2.2 (Hard disk or controller)
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At 09:59 97-11-19 -0800, you wrote:
>People keep inventing new mailing addresses for questions faster than I
>can add them to my filters.  :-)
>
>On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Marie-Josee Blais wrote:
>
>> My FreeBSD server seems to be thrashing my hard disk bit per bit.
>> 
>> Once in a while I get messages telling me that a certain file on my system
>> has bad data.
>> Most of the time I don't use those files so I erase them.
>> 
>> Is there a way for me to check if my hard disk is the problem or my
>> controller or maybe FreeBSD itself.
>
>What brand and model of controller and disks do you have?
>
>Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
>Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
>http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
>
 Thanks for answering Doug,
 My controller is on my motherboard.
 Brand of the Motherboard: PENTIUM GA-586ATV PCI-ISABUS
 Chips used to control IDE: SB82371SB or SB82437VX (Intel) (I'm not sure
which)
 
 The hard disk is a Western Digital Caviar 22100
 Params: 4092 cyl, 16 heads, 63 spt, 2111.8 MB capacity 

 Also, I'v actually had the chance to run bad144 and here is the kind of
error it gave me:
 bad144: cyl/trk/sect out of range in existing entry: sn=28766658 cn=28531,
tn=116, sn=102

 So what do you think that means ? Is my server writing data outside its
partitions ?

Hi Doug,
I actually figured out what was wrong with my server.  What happened was
that I upgraded the server from a 486 to a Pentium by swapping the hard
disk on the old system with the new system.  I was under the impression
that the 2 hard disks were the same.  Si I didn't redetect the hard disk.
Anyways things are back to normal.  And thanks since you're the one who
made me look at the disk geometry in the first place.

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