Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:25:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Keith A. Fredericks" <keith@kellysoftware.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file system problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961216142450.496C-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <32B5B4EA.336C@kellysoftware.com>
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On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Keith A. Fredericks wrote: > This time, I was in X playing a music CD and bringing up Netscape. > The cursor locked and the screen blanked and the machine rebooted. > I had many bad files in the manual fsck of my /usr file system. > > I have a NEC p133 w/Aurora motherboard with 48M RAM that includes > the S3 Trio64V+ and the Vibra 16 chips. I have a Toshiba XM-5401B > SCSI CD-ROM drive and a Micropolis 4.2G AV SCSI drive and the > Adaptec 2940 controller. Also, I have the 3com 3c590 pci ethernet > card. > > What is killing my file system? How can I prevent this? I will > try to figure this out, but I thought someone might have run into > this and can tell me what to change. Is anything appearing on the console? It sounds like a bad disk, cable, or controller. Are you shutting down the machine with shutdown(8) when you turn it off? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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