From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 1 11:54:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA26610 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 11:54:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy3.ba.best.com (root@proxy3.ba.best.com [206.184.139.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA26605 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 11:54:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsampley.vip.best.com (bsampley.vip.best.com [206.184.160.196]) by proxy3.ba.best.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id LAA28021; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 11:51:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 11:50:29 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley To: Nat Low cc: David Kelly , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this a failing HD? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Nat Low wrote: > 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. > Funny. I had the exact opposite problem. I have a Western Digital 1.6 EIDE drive. When I didn't know any better and I was still running Micro$oft Lose95 the drive would start spinning and thrashing for no apparent reason. After I disinfected my HD of the nasty virus [Lose95] and dedicated the system to FBSD the problem went away. Burton Sampley