From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 11 12:27:38 2002 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 EF84D37B401 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:27:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from sol.aptsolutions.com (sol.aptsolutions.com [63.231.253.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39CE643E4A for ; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:27:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from godfrey@sol.aptsolutions.com) Received: from sol.aptsolutions.com (localhost.aptsolutions.com [127.0.0.1]) by sol.aptsolutions.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gABKS9GK068600; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:28:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from godfrey@sol.aptsolutions.com) X-Authentication-Warning: sol.aptsolutions.com: Host localhost.aptsolutions.com [127.0.0.1] claimed to be sol.aptsolutions.com Received: (from godfrey@localhost) by sol.aptsolutions.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id gABKS7a6068599; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:28:07 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from godfrey) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:28:07 -0600 From: Jason Godfrey To: Neil Doody Cc: jeff@unixconsults.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Maxtor Crashes Message-ID: <20021111142807.A68523@sol.aptsolutions.com> References: <02f901c28784$7be9ade0$0200a8c0@b1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <02f901c28784$7be9ade0$0200a8c0@b1>; from neil.doody@interserveis.co.uk on Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:10:48AM -0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Replacing the drive with another brand did not end up fixing the problem. Upgrading to 4.7 and running "atacontrol mode 0 pio3 pio3" did on the new machine. I think it fixed the older machine as well, but not enough time has passed on that machine for me to say for sure. - Jason On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:10:48AM -0000, Neil Doody wrote: > Hi, am I correct in thinking you two have both experienced random > unexplainable freebsd crashes, and you think its to do with the Maxtor > type hard drives? > > Recently I have been getting signal 12 kernel panics, the other day I > had a different message of something about the filesystem doing a > boo-boo. And even now when running a make world it may not reboot, but > receive a signal 11 with some corruption that would suggest it received > some kind of rubbish data. > > These panics happen once a day roughly, but can be easily recreated by > running a make world as you have mentioned. > > I have had everything replaced in the machine but the hard drive, which > is Maxtor, however I had the hard drive replaced today, and it was > another Maxtor hard drive. > > A clean install of freebsd 4.6.2 was installed on the new Maxtor hard > drive, and since having it booted up I have not been able to complete a > build world to get the latest freebsd. > > I have gone back to my host to request a non-maxtor drive be put into > the machine, do you guys truly believe it to be a problem with Maxtor > drives? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message