From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 18 08:23:40 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 5419716A4B3 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 08:23:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8691A43FCB for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 08:23:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9515C3D28; Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:22:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: Dmitry Morozovsky Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:26:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3F91235F.16514.8819817@localhost> Priority: normal References: <3F90F7E2.12674.7D7B961@localhost> In-reply-to: <20031018191155.K6850@woozle.rinet.ru> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body 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 15:23:40 -0000 On 18 Oct 2003 at 19:15, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > 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. *gag*! Sorry. Yes, that should be "I replaced the IDE cable". Not the drive. I apologise for that. > 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... They may have been, but they were not in /var/log/messages. If they were on the console, they were scrolled off the top. I couldn't scroll up because the keyboard hadn't been attached at boot, and I had not modified the kernel to allow for that situation. Thank you. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/