From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 27 12: 8: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4868C37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:08:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from happymaggot.stinkymeat.net (12-231-130-28.client.attbi.com [12.231.130.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 481E843E4A for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:08:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mahlon-dated-1034449682.c803bb@martini.nu) Received: (qmail 79850 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2002 19:08:02 -0000 Received: from laika.martini.nu (HELO localhost.martini.nu) (192.168.2.8) by happymaggot.stinkymeat.net with SMTP; 27 Sep 2002 19:08:02 -0000 Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:08:00 -0700 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Data corruption, unknown source. Message-ID: <20020927190800.GB324@martini.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 19B8 DDB3 0156 3A03 FA80 8278 C0BE 6BFB 3606 B267 X-Sysinfo: FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE, up 2 mins From: Mahlon X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.57 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Having a weird problem, just checking if anyone else has seen something similar and can point me in a direction before I go swapping hardware. Been seeing quite a few hosed files over the last few days, since tossing a pair of Maxtor 80 gig drives into a box here. They are on a separate controller and separate channels (on an older Promise), and the box is running 4.6.2 stable. The drives are mirrored using vinum. I've got the newest bios for both the Promise and the Motherboard. As a test, I dd'ed an empty 500 meg file, then md5'ed it. After waiting about 30 minutes, I md5'ed it again - the checksum had changed. The drives are checking out ok (using the Maxtor utilities) and vinum reports no errors whatsoever. Smaller files (text and binary) seem unaffected. Anything over 5 megs is corrupted after a seemingly random amount of time. After waiting over a day, the md5 checksum hadn't changed again, after the initial scrambling. This has me pretty well stumped, and I'm about to swap controller and cables - just curious if anyone has dealt with something like this in the past, and/or can steer me down better troubleshooting path. -Mahlon Mahlon E. Smith jabber id: mahlon@chat.martini.nu http://www.martini.nu/ get pgp key: mahlon-pgp@martini.nu ........................................................................ In the lush green grass; The young lovers rolled over; SQUISH. Found stinkymeat. - Tom Elliott --KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE9lKyQwL5r+zYGsmcRAvYRAJ9RVJ0362lT8SXLW+fgS2LZsKUj2QCeJaiC HDTtqhpH85jhdeJzYqs0yCQ= =65Yz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message