From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 14 22: 4: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C151150ED for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 22:03:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 527 invoked by uid 100); 15 Aug 1999 05:04:17 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Aug 1999 05:04:17 -0000 Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 22:04:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Random disk read problems In-Reply-To: <19990814103911.21042.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Greg Black wrote: :->> I've been shuffling some data around in preperation for archiving :->> it. Being a bit paranoid, I tend to md5 sum the stuff at both ends, :->> and then verify the checksums. :->It's a near certainty that you have bad memory. Nuts. This system has been reliable - anb up most of the time - for the last year, and I haven't seen these problems. Could a power outage have caused the chips to fail? Thanx,