From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 20:53:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA09694 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 20:53:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen.ampr.org (max21-171.HiWAAY.net [208.147.153.171]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA09685 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 20:53:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from nexgen (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nexgen.ampr.org (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id WAA06443; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 22:52:55 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199703010452.WAA06443@nexgen.ampr.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Nat Low cc: questions@freebsd.org From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: Is this a failing HD? In-reply-to: Message from Nat Low of "Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:13:04 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 22:52:54 -0600 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nat Low replied: > > On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, David Kelly wrote: > > > Sitting in the room I heard a HD spinning up and down and up. Noticed > > messages on the console. System seemed ok, so I tried "find / -name junk". > > Kernel panic 12 sometime after find moved over to a SCSI drive. Swap is on > > the problem drive. > > I had this same exact problem occur sparatically with an old IDE 1.6Gig > Maxtor drive. It's since been replaced with SCSI equipment and I put it > in a win95 box. It's been running that win95 machine for quite a while > now, no problems yet. System stayed up 4 hours and didn't make it out of single user this evening. This time it didn't see the SCSI drive (the original problem was squarely tagged on the IDE drive.) Disks were spinning up and down even as I removed the case. Wiggled power connectors and eventually they stayed spinning but I didn't get a warm fuzzy feeling that I found the specific problem. Started a dump of my filesystems. Checked back 5 hours later and it was still OK. Wonderfull. I hate problems like this. Am pretty sure its not FreeBSD-current that is causing the problem. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.