From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 8 16:22:38 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA21240 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 16:22:38 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA21232 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 1995 16:22:33 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA26760; Wed, 9 Aug 1995 09:19:49 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199508082349.JAA26760@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Help! To: george@mvp.com (George Mitchell) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 09:19:49 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508081405.HAA00270@southstation.mvp.com> from "George Mitchell" at Aug 8, 95 07:05:18 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1202 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk George Mitchell stands accused of saying: > A week ago, I simultaneously got a new system and the FreeBSD 2.0.5 > CDROM. The combination of the two is highly unreliable, and I'd > like some opinions on whether I'm looking at a hardware or software > problem. ... (Trap 12) ... > I could easily believe this is hardware, but I'm hoping it just > might sound familiar to someone out there. Thanks for your > attention! This is usually a hardware problem; either bad memory, a bad motherboard or a bad disk controller have caused it for me. You don't say whether you're running a busmastering disk controller, if not then I'd almost certainly say memory error. You may want to check your bus speed settings as well, though I haven't had one of these that could be tracked to that. > -- George Mitchel (george@mvp.com) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[