From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 16 00:48:11 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA28315 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 00:48:11 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA28090 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 00:40:25 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA00367; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 15:38:44 +0800 Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 15:38:43 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Hmmmm... another hardware disk error? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk You may recall that I posted about a "deferred hardware error" from a Quantum 1080S disk during the 2.0.5 alpha cycle. Also, I have had problems with the machine becoming unresponsive after several minutes of heavy Web serving (which included CGI processing). Today over lunch, I decided to use the Apache server instead of NCSA. It was able to handle the load far better than NCSA (with a load average of 5.0 vs. 30+) and it ran quite happily for a couple of hours. I had stepped away from the console to start a tape backup and when I returned, the machine was sitting at the xdm login. Checking syslog messages: Jun 16 13:07:49 aries /kernel: vnode_pager_input: I/O read error Jun 16 13:07:57 aries /kernel: vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) error, PID 17221 failure Fortunately, nothing was lost on disk (just warnings about dirty superblocks) and FreeBSD was able to complete the boot cycle and bring up all network services. Should I get the dealer to replace this drive before it completely fails? This is the second time I've seen a disk-related hardware error logged. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org