From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 5:54:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (unknown [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA3737B4EC for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 05:53:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from rdu26-61-048.nc.rr.com ([66.26.61.48]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:52:32 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:57:46 -0500 From: Neill Robins X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.48f) Personal Reply-To: Neill Robins X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <16137607638.20010207085746@nc.rr.com> To: Siegbert Baude Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of swap causes signal 11 or fatal trap 12 In-reply-To: <3A814F3B.B7B41311@mail.iowna.com> References: <002f01c090b7$fb29a800$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> <3A80C5C3.1C5AF30B@mail.iowna.com> <004601c090bd$dc8694c0$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> <3A814F3B.B7B41311@mail.iowna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wednesday, February 07, 2001, 8:35:55 AM, you wrote: BM> 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? BM> Sure there are other possibilities. I just pointed this out because it BM> happened to me recently. BM> I wouldn't recommend the DOS thing, scandisk isn't very reliable at BM> detecting bad areas anyway (in my experience) but I don't know of any BM> BSD based programs to do this either. BM> Some other things that could be wrong could be SW bug, RAM problem, IDE BM> controller flaky, etc. Lots of possibilities. BM> -Bill Here is an idea, that might work. I have a 45GB DTLA drive and used this Drive Fitness Test from IBM to check the drive. It takes a while, but it is pretty thorough. http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm These are the only non-supported drives, which doesn't apply to you according to your message: IBM Microdrives Travelstar E drives IBM drives built before November 1995 Also, (from the same IBM page) you might look at http://www.ontrack.com/dataadvisor/ Good Luck, Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message