Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 08:50:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Joselow <pjoselow@j51.com> To: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: General 2940 Controller Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981002083548.8024C-100000@j51.com>
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Dear Group: I have a vanilla 2940 (not the Ultra). Everything seems to have been stable for months. Over the last week, I attempted to install the Beta version of Oracle on my Redhat 5.1 SMP box (with a 2.1.78 kernel). My /home and /usr/local partitions seem to have become trashed. They reside on different physical disks. I get medium errors on both of them. Everything seemed fine before the install Enough background, now for the main question. I ran the disk verify in the 2940 BIOS. One disk checked, another kept giving errors. Does anyone know if the verify in the 2940 BIOS guarantees that there is a hardware problem with the disk (since I have been stable for months, I will assume I don't have any termination problems). Should I bother trying to reformat the questionable disk or just trash it and get another one? A good non-destructive hardware test would first read a sector, then write and read back several patterns, then finally write the sector's original data back. Does the 2940 BIOS verify test do anything like this? -------------------------------------------- from just North of the Jersey Wilds Paul Joselow To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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