Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:47:43 +0200 From: Shaun Jurrens <shamz@freenix.no> To: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adaptec 2940uw error message on -stable Message-ID: <20000707114743.A25559@atreides.freenix.no>
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Hi all, Guess it's time I get back to you on how I got to the root of a very similar problem. I too was plagued by the same problem for months. Changed every imaginable thing. In the end it was a bios setting for ram that I had changed from the default setting in an interrupted bios tuning/testing session. It seems to cause very small data corruption problems: copying large .tar files succeeded only rarely, daily checks caused errors too, but not always. A very tough bug to track down. Even building world didn't seem to be affected, but cvsup was a nightmare... Suggestion: set any bios changes for your ram back to default and change only those you know work under load (cvsup or cpio/tar | cp). I don't know if it's because the ram is marginal or not. Since I reset the setting (it was just one and I had forgotten that I changed it at all) I haven't had a single error, and I even have a lvd disk with adapter. I hope I have been of some help. -- Yours truly, Shaun D. Jurrens shaun@shamz.net shamz@freenix.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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