From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 27 06:20:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA04969 for current-outgoing; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 06:20:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vector.jhs.no_domain (slip139-92-42-140.ut.nl.ibm.net [139.92.42.140]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA04895; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 06:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vector.jhs.no_domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vector.jhs.no_domain (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA16855; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 16:57:44 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199608261457.QAA16855@vector.jhs.no_domain> To: Terry Lambert cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), nirva@ishiboo.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: -current kills harddrives From: "Julian H. Stacey" Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd. Address: Holz Strasse 27d, 80469 Munich, Germany Phone: +49.89.268616 Fax: +49.89.2608126 Web: http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ Mailer: EXMH 1.6.7, PGP available In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Aug 1996 10:06:10 PDT." <199608231706.KAA16028@phaeton.artisoft.com> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 16:57:43 +0200 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Reference: > From: Terry Lambert > > > > Here's my situation, 2 perfectly happy HDs, both SCSI-II, were > > > working great for months. > > > > I seriously doubt that -current is killing your hard drives. > > Some things you just can't do from software, even if you wanted > > to. > > Do you have a Commodore CBM 8032? > > I have three pokes to sell you... & then there's the "branch to {relative to current offset}: 0" that could kill real core store 'cos of the non cycling on the scan lines, & the assumed duty factors :-) Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/