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From: "Travis Mikalson" <bofh@terranova.net>
To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>, "Richard Gresek" <rg@plusline.de>
Subject: Re: data overrun of 16777215 bytes detected.  Forcing a retry.
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 19:46:54 -0400
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I've had the same thing happen.
Lost my /etc.. was a real nightmare

The solution was replacement of the fscked SCSI cable.

Travis
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> Hallo,
> 
> we are running a WWW-Server on 3.0-970209-SNAP with Apache 1.2b7.
> 
> Since a few days we have repeatedly problems with the hdd.
> 
> The problem starts with the kernel message:
> 
> Apr 15 02:24:48 www /kernel: sd0: data overrun of 16777215 bytes
detected.
> Forcing a retry.   
> 
> Few hours later the server hangs and has to be switched off and on.
> Regularly the filesystem is corrupted and we lose thousands of files.
> 
> The hardware is:
> MB: Gigabyte GA5DX (With Adaptec SCSII onboard)
> CPU: P5 Intel 200 MHz
> Disk: QUANTUM XP34550S LXQ1 (4 GB)
> 
> Has anybody an idea where the problem could be??
> 
> Thanks in advance.