From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 15 10:49:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF5A414F92 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 1999 10:49:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 5632 invoked by uid 100); 15 Aug 1999 17:50:04 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Aug 1999 17:50:04 -0000 Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 10:50:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Random disk read problems In-Reply-To: <19990815081434.24844.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Greg Black wrote: :->It's certainly worth turning on the memory checking. If it :->fails, then you can be certain the memory is no good. And if it :->passes, you can't trust the result :-) Well, what happens when the board fails? Do I get log messages? Something else? :->I built a new box out of bits last week and got all sorts of :->random failures, with various programs crashing in odd ways. In :->each case, md5 checksums of the faulty program and the original :->on the CD differed. I bet on bad memory, turned on the memory :->checks and fortunately it failed, so my vendor agreed to swap :->the memory, although when he saw FreeBSD starting up after he :->swapped the chip he wanted to blame the OS for the problem :-( I suspect the warranty won't cover this - assuming that it's still valid. I was hoping to buy a second CPU, not memory :-(. I wonder if insurance will cover this.