From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 8 20:43:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp014.mail.yahoo.com (smtp014.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6DD937B41F for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 20:43:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from adsl-208-201-244-160.sonic.net (HELO ?208.201.244.160?) (208.201.244.160) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Jan 2002 04:43:09 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: yodadoa@pop.mail.yahoo.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020108154044.A553@tisys.org> References: <20020108125104.A172@tisys.org> <000801c1983d$dd7dca00$c80fa8c0@lfarr> <20020108154044.A553@tisys.org> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 20:42:40 -0800 To: "'Nils Holland'" From: Peter Hessler Subject: Re: 4.5-PRERELEASE: VIA chases again... Cc: freebsd-net@epcdirect.co.uk, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 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 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message