From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 5:40:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (unknown [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9A337B4EC for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 05:40:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f17Dbtr28291; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:37:55 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A814F3B.B7B41311@mail.iowna.com> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 08:35:55 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Siegbert Baude Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of swap causes signal 11 or fatal trap 12 References: <002f01c090b7$fb29a800$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> <3A80C5C3.1C5AF30B@mail.iowna.com> <004601c090bd$dc8694c0$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Siegbert Baude wrote: > > Thanks for the fast response (also to Matthew), > > > Siegbert Baude wrote: > > > > > dmesg snippet: > > > ad0: 6197MB [12592/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 > > > > How old is this drive? Could be hardware on the way out. I had problems > > like this about a month ago and fixed it by replacing an old, overworked > > HDD. > > This disk is about 2 years old. Not too much, but you never know. Is there a > possibility to test the surface of the disk within FBSD? Else (changing the > partition to dos and using scandisk seems possible but dangerous)? I never > noticed any problems with it so far, are there other possibilities? Sure there are other possibilities. I just pointed this out because it happened to me recently. I wouldn't recommend the DOS thing, scandisk isn't very reliable at detecting bad areas anyway (in my experience) but I don't know of any BSD based programs to do this either. Some other things that could be wrong could be SW bug, RAM problem, IDE controller flaky, etc. Lots of possibilities. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message