Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 20:44:12 GMT From: zietlow@berbee.com To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>, Rob Zietlow <Zietlow@berbee.com>, Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lowlevel format Message-ID: <200110272044.f9RKiCu26044@berbee.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Heh...great memory issue....well being the only computer I own with this type of memory that's going to be great :-) along with the fact that it already has 48 installed...hopefully they are 16's that I can swap out, been a while since I have been in this box. Thanks for the suggestions. Rob > On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Rob Zietlow wrote: > > > Anyone familar with a utility that will perform a low level format on a hard > > disk before an install? I believe that I am having issues with my hard disk > > and I would like to give this a try. 5 times I have installed and gotten 5 > > different sefaults when I try to run make buildworld, but install make > > buildworld works fine on another spare computer around the house, so I am > > pretty sure it isn't anything with cvsup. > > A HDD low level format will almost surely not make your segfaults go away > - in fact, I bet everything I own on that ;-) Your problem, so the > segfaults are most likely caused by a hardware flaw. These little memory > modules are always the first things to blame when this happens. So, I > suggest that you take the RAM modules out of the machine that has the > problems and put some other ones in there. If make buildworld works now, > you can be sure that your RAM was causing the problem. The only thing > remaining to be found out is which of your modules to throw in the trash > can. In order to find that out, you'd be best off by simply swapping, > piece by piece, your RAM modules. In the end you should see that you only > get the problem when a certain module is in your machine. > > Other causes for segfaults during make buildworld could be overclocking, > or problems with other hardware components. The hard disk should, however, > not be the cause, and a low level format would definately not change > anything. > > Greetings > Nils > > > Nils Holland > Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany > http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200110272044.f9RKiCu26044>