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Date:      Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:15:29 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: erorrs from spec_getpages
Message-ID:  <20031018191155.K6850@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <3F90F7E2.12674.7D7B961@localhost>
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On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Dan Langille wrote:

DL> > DL> http://beta.freebsddiary.org/tmp/mtwenty-console.jpg
DL> > DL>
DL> > DL> I rebooted.  The system couldn't find the disk.  I replaced the IDE
DL> > DL> drive.  Still no disk.  Checked the BIOS.  The disk wasn't listed so
	~~~~~~~~

This sentense put in in wrong assumption.

DL> > DL> I added it.  I also deactivated the floppy because it had been
DL> > DL> removed yesterday.
DL> > DL>
DL> > DL> A reboot was fine.  fsck went OK.  All seems well now.
DL> > DL>
DL> > DL> I'm doing another buildworld, building some ports, and running cvsup
DL> > DL> on my ports tree to create disk activity.
DL> > DL>
DL> > DL> When that finishes, I'm going to run the manufacturer's test program
DL> > DL> on the drive to see if any problems are found.
DL> > DL>
DL> > DL> Was this a hardware failure?  System failure?  Any recommended
DL> > DL> courses of action?
DL> >
DL> > I'd bet a couple of (insert your preferred currency symbol here ;-) that you
DL> > disc has been failed at your swap area; then, when pager decided to bring back
DL> > (swapin) some pages it previously swapped out, it complaints.
DL>
DL> Since the reboot (20 hours ago), the box has been fine.  It's done a
DL> few buildworlds, and no problems have been seen.  The disk
DL> manufacturer's diagnostics tools found nothing wrong with the drive.
DL> At this point, I'm suspecting a bad cable (which was replaced), not
DL> that I have any firm evidence that was the problem.

Well I was in impression you've swapped out the disk, not cable, hence my
assumption. Sure it may be wrong cable; however, I suppose at least some ATA
errors should be logged somewhere before spec_getpages...

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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