From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 1 15:38:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA04528 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 15:38:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from python.shoal.net.au (andrew@python.shoal.net.au [203.26.44.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA04523 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 15:38:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by python.shoal.net.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA00749; Sun, 2 Mar 1997 09:36:52 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 09:36:52 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew Perry To: Burton Sampley cc: Nat Low , 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 Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Burton Sampley wrote: > 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$oft Lose95 the drive would start spinning and thrashing for no > apparent reason. After I disinfected my HD of the nasty virus [Lose95] > and dedicated the system to FBSD the problem went away. > > Burton Sampley > I believe the answer to this is that M$ Windows is not a virus - Viruses to something. :-) Andrew Perry andrew@shoal.net.au