From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 18 08:15:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 718FA16A4B3 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 08:15:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 203A443FBD for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 08:15:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9IFFTLq024637; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:15:29 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:15:29 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Dan Langille In-Reply-To: <3F90F7E2.12674.7D7B961@localhost> Message-ID: <20031018191155.K6850@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <3F8FBBC7.10222.304EFA2@localhost> <3F90F7E2.12674.7D7B961@localhost> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: erorrs from spec_getpages X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 15:15:32 -0000 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] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------