From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 6 13:21:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA91216A41F for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 13:21:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F0A43D46 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 13:21:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 20814 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2005 23:21:50 +1000 Received: from 203-173-33-12.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO ?192.168.13.3?) (203.173.33.12) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 6 Sep 2005 23:21:50 +1000 Message-ID: <431D97E9.2090503@meijome.net> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 23:21:45 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Abbott References: <20050905151332.P16924@saturn.araneidae.co.uk> <20050905171912.GF67960@sentinelchicken.net> <20050905172827.U17621@saturn.araneidae.co.uk> <20050905202954.Q18151@saturn.araneidae.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050905202954.Q18151@saturn.araneidae.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Hard disk woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 13:21:52 -0000 Michael Abbott wrote: > > I still think the question: "why does FreeBSD hang?" is interesting. indeed - no idea how Linux handles - win32 would probably BSOD (I had W2K servers BSOD because someone accidently powered down an external drive it was writing to. nasty). anyway, i had a weird problem too, ad4 (SATA drive) got detached overnight - more details at: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-September/097607.html When I got to the console in the morning, the box was completelly frozen at the console, though I could access just fine via ssh. Would anyone care to provide some explanation about this? (After a couple of full scans with mhdd and no problems detected, I put the drive back into the server and it's been running ok since then. bloody weird.) thanks in advance, beto