Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:29:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Disk errors when copying Message-ID: <20070910042935.N18165@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCEEGBCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCEEGBCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> From: Lars Eighner [mailto:luvbeastie@larseighner.com] >> I wish I'd known that before I trashed my disc and spent a couple of weeks >> and hundreds of bucks building a new system. >> > > One of the rules of thumb when you have hardware problems with a new > system (I'm assuming of course that these UDMA errors have been > happening since the system was built) is to search both the FreeBSD > questions mailing list archives, and the PR database - both closed and > open PRs. Particularly closed PRs are a wealth of information because > so many of them are closed for lack of followup. I got the (disc) manufacture's utilities (which run on a bootable FreeDOS CD) and ran every test over and over. It kept telling me the disc was fine. I should have believed. I always feel a little weird about discs because although the manufacture and the BIOS agree on the geometry, FreeBSD always (over three or four boxes with a half-dozen different discs) tells me the geometry is wrong. It seems so confident about it, I generally let it do what it wants. But what does FreeBSD know about the disc that the manufacture and the BIOS don't? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266
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