From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 18 15:47:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shell.xecu.net (shell.xecu.net [208.241.7.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AEAB150E5 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:47:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andy@xecu.net) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost) by shell.xecu.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA20651; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 18:47:22 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.xecu.net: andy owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 18:47:22 -0500 (EST) From: Andy Dills To: Andrew MacIntyre Cc: Andrew Heybey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maxtor 40GB HD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Andy Dills wrote: > > > Version is 3.3, standard newfs args from sysinstall (-b 2192 -something > > 1024), the error message is a simple write error. What info from the > > disklabel would you like? > > This is just an off the wall theory from an interested observer with not > a lot of detailed knowledge.... > > How much memory does this system have? Real? Swap? Are you doing this > from an install floppy? Does it happen immediately on starting the newfs > or after some processing? It has to be the ide driver, because even with small (<20GB) partitions, the machine would panic and reboot after about 3 hours, with uncorrectable drive errors, requiring a full reinstall. I'm going to give redhat a quick try at it...it's just an rsync server, so I'll have to put away my OS of choice until 4.0-Release comes out next year. Andy ---------------------------------------------------- Andy Dills 301-682-9972 Network Administrator Fax 301-695-4060 Xecunet, LLC www.xecu.net ---------------------------------------------------- Dialup * Webhosting * E-Commerce * High-Speed Access To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message