From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 26 10:38:17 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA00261 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 10:38:17 -0800 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA00184 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 1995 10:37:27 -0800 Received: from g386bsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07356; Thu, 26 Jan 95 17:16:31 +0100 Received: by g386bsd.first.gmd.de (RAA12826); Thu, 26 Jan 1995 17:17:49 +0059 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199501261618.RAA12826@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: Directory entries get corrupted? To: jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay) Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 17:17:49 +0059 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199501260713.JAA04848@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from "John Hay" at Jan 26, 95 09:13:19 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1447 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have two machines here with their hardware almost identical: 486DX2-66, > Adaptec 1542B SCSI card and Conner CFP1060S 1G disks. One is running 2.0R > and the other is running current. > When there is lots of disk activity like cvs checkout of the source tree > or tar extract from a tape, a fsck will report that some directories are > corrupted. The kernel however is quite happy with that directory it seems. > If I remove that directory or move the data in the directory somewhere else > and then remove the directory, fsck is quite happy with it. I have seen exactly the same failures with a 1542 and a Conner CFP1060S disk and it seems a firmware problem with the Conner disks. If you have a chance to get a firmware upgrade from Conner, try that. I have used after that a Fujitsu M2694 and now a Seagate Hawk disk on the same hardware without any problems. I have now seen three reports like that with Conner 1.0Gb udn 1.3Gb disks and four people have reported no problems. One mentioned there was a firmware upgrade for the 1.0Gb and only early disks showed this problem. Under DOS there is no problem with that disk. I have also used this disk with no problems for a short time in a SUN and now it landed in a MAC with no problems. ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe