From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 26 17:23:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2658316A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:23:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB78B43D53 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:23:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1590360E2 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:23:57 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 83085-03 for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:23:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from [216.201.118.138] (racerx.makeworld.com [216.201.118.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF87560DB for ; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:23:52 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <42459AD8.90802@makeworld.com> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:24:40 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050313) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <239528826.20050326182122@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <239528826.20050326182122@wanadoo.fr> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic Subject: Re: Updated on SATA drive problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:23:58 -0000 Anthony Atkielski wrote: > 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. > That's good news - I'm glad to hear that you are progressing with your issues. Once you have these items under control - you ought to have a more enjoyable experiance with whatever OS you wish to use. -- Best regards, Chris Keep emotionally active, cater to your favorite neurosis.