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Date:      Tue, 8 Jan 2002 20:42:40 -0800
From:      Peter Hessler <yodadoa@yahoo.com>
To:        "'Nils Holland'" <nils@tisys.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@epcdirect.co.uk, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.5-PRERELEASE: VIA chases again...
Message-ID:  <a05101001b8617a1b1832@[208.201.244.160]>
In-Reply-To: <20020108154044.A553@tisys.org>
References:  <20020108125104.A172@tisys.org> <000801c1983d$dd7dca00$c80fa8c0@lfarr> <20020108154044.A553@tisys.org>

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I had similar symptoms on a laptop.  It was running Windows 95, but I 
think it still applies.   Format and re-install fixed it for 2-3 
months, then bad sectors left and right.  Turns out the hard drive 
was failing.  (overheating in this example)



>On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:13:20PM -0000, Lawrence Farr stood up and spoke:
>>
>>  Moved the install back to another disk (I ran the IBM low level
>>  disk
>>  tools on the disk first, and it passed). Within an hour I had a panic.
>>  It was a corrupt directory error, but it rebooted before I had chance to
>>  write
>>  down the error. I newfs'd it last night, and left it run with no
>>  problems,
>>  and it's buildingworld again now.
>
>So a simple newfs and restore operation solved your problem? For sure I'll
>try the same here now.
>
>Now that I think about it, the machine also tended to run rock-solid ever
>since I put it together in April 2001. The problems only started to occur
>when I changed the HD in December. WHile the new disk seems to be ok
>according to Western Digital's WDDIAG, I guess newfs'ing it and restoring
>the data to it surely cannot hurt...
>
>Greetings
>Nils
>
>
>--
>Nils Holland
>Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany
>http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org
>
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