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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 18:21:22 +0100
From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Updated on SATA drive problem
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Today I ran offline diagnostics against the SATA drive that I suspected
of causing DMA errors and two system crashes.  These offline diagnostics
confirmed a problem with the drive and eliminated FreeBSD as a source of
the problem.  I replaced the drive and I'm watching to see if any of the
mystery errors in FreeBSD return (at this point I don't expect them to,
since it seems to have been a defective drive).

It took a tremendously long time for me to figure out how to fix up the
new drive for use.  I'm still not sure what I finally did that
apparently was in the right order and formatted everything correctly.

-- 
Anthony