Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 01:41:14 +0100 From: Jez Hancock <munk@munkboxen.mine.nu> To: FreeBSD questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Checking HDD disk integrity under FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020523014114.A8661@munkboxen.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020522181303.01acd270@mail.sage-one.net>; from jackstone@sage-one.net on Wed, May 22, 2002 at 06:13:03PM -0500 References: <20020522233543.A8507@munkboxen.mine.nu> <3.0.5.32.20020522181303.01acd270@mail.sage-one.net>
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On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 06:13:03PM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: > At 11:35 PM 5.22.2002 +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: > That is interesting. I am having problems with the (new) Quantum Fireballs > too with two identical 40Gig on a server. Am getting errors, especially on > the HD #2 when writing large tar gzip backups. It's (they) are hanging up > and it takes a reboot. On reboot, fsck take a long time to put thing back > together again. Methinks the BIOS is not reading the geometry properly, > or....not really sure. But, I've just ordered two new Seagates to replace > them both. I don't trust them anymore as this makes about 3 or 4 hangups > that I first thought was the tar... but after switching to gtar, the > problem didn't go away.... can't afford to keep hanging and rebooting. One > of these times fsck won't recover (salvage) them....ouch! bleh sorry think I only replied to you personally before! Anyway... bleh does anyone else know of any tools for checking disk integrity!??? Can't believe one doesn't exist in Unix ... ? Cheers :) -- Jez Hancock - munk@munkboxen.mine.nu http://munkboxen.mine.nu - FreeBSD network http://www.freebsd.org - Probably the best OS in the world... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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