From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 12 02:38:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA22312 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 02:38:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.42.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA22305 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 02:38:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA00549; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 11:37:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199811121037.LAA00549@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: sever ide hdd crash (also re:Another instance of the crash I was seeing) In-Reply-To: <364A0A3A.EEBFB63A@fx.ro> from "cpl92@fx.ro" at "Nov 12, 1998 0: 5:47 am" To: cpl92@fx.ro Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 11:37:30 +0100 (CET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems cpl92@fx.ro wrote: > One day ago, under the same circumstances (only that the used dist was > 2.2.7-RELEASE), while I was looking far a tarball distribution in CD #3 > (WALNUT CREAK 2.2.7), I heard the CD slowing down. Knowing what happened > last time, I tried alt+ctrl+F1 to see the syslog mesg. Surprize again: > the computer was not responding to any of the possible commands. I have > waited a couple of minutes (the hdd was not running), then I have pushed > the front pannel reset button. Surprize again: While reseting the > computer I received the BIOS message PRIMARY HDD FAILURE. Since then, my > BIOS says that I don't have a HDD inside (actually I have a Quantum > Fireball UDMA 4.3 Gb). I hope that the vendor will change the damaged > hdd, but I am quite sure that this is a very serious problem in FreeBSD > kernel. Hmm, I'm quite sure you have a bad disk, the kernel cannot make your disk die like that. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@freebsd.org) FreeBSD Core Team member To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message