From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 15 14:24:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA23637 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 14:24:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hemi.com (hemi.com [204.132.158.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA23629 for ; Wed, 15 May 1996 14:24:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mbarkah@localhost) by hemi.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA26133 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 May 1996 15:33:09 -0600 From: Ade Barkah Message-Id: <199605152133.PAA26133@hemi.com> Subject: Poof, hard drive wiped clean... To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 15:33:08 -0600 (MDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk One of our 2.1-R machines was backing up an nfs-mounted filesystem to a 4mm tape when poof, the system panicked, spewed something about / being mangled, rebooted, and never came back. Booting the machine up gives the familiar "Non-system disk..." error. Inserting a DOS boot floppy and running fdisk reveals... nothing! (0% usage on the drive.) Looks like the partition information got wiped clean. Hmm, how could this be ? Hardware failure ? Sounds unlikely. I'll run diagnostics on the drive later tonight. The system is a Compaq Proliant 2000 Server (Pentium), running FreeBSD 2.1-Release. The drive which got wiped was sd0 (one of those Compaq hot-pluggable drives, 1gb) off an Adaptec 174x (EISA). The machine is our news server, and has 64mb RAM on it. Any ideas ? I'm going to simply repartition and reinstall FreeBSD on it, but I'm worried this will happen again. Thanks for any hints, -Ade ------------------------------------------------------------------- Inet: mbarkah@hemi.com - HEMISPHERE ONLINE - -------------------------------------------------------------------