From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 6 10:31:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA05995 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Oct 1995 10:31:33 -0700 Received: from aslan.cdrom.com (aslan.cdrom.com [192.216.223.142]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA05988 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 1995 10:31:31 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA20261; Fri, 6 Oct 1995 10:29:44 -0700 Message-Id: <199510061729.KAA20261@aslan.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: aslan.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Alan Byrne cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: File Corruption Problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Oct 1995 15:43:41 BST." Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 10:29:44 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Hi all, > >I'm seeing a strange problem with some files getting corrupted on a >FreeBSD disk. > >The machine in question is running 2.0.5-950622-SNAP. > >My setup is as follows > >P5-90 (running 2.0.5-950622-SNAP) >32MByte Memory >Bus Logic BT946 PCI SCSI controller. >Seagate ST15150N 4GByte SCSI Disk ( RCS tree on this disk) >Quantum VP32210 2Gbyte SCSI Disk >SMC PCI Network card (Digital DC21040 Ethernet chip) > If your motherboard has a neptune chipset, it is most likely a Busmastering problem with your ethernet card. I've seen that on a lot of our systems here, but its really exacerbated if your running a 100Mb/s network. We've upgraded all of those machines to ASUS triton motherboards, and the problems went away. >Any help (or workarounds) would be much appreciated. > > >Alan Byrne >Network Administrator >ISOCOR Ireland >(alan@isocor.ie) > -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================