Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 02:43:54 -0500 (EST) From: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mramirez.sy.yale.edu> To: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Dimension P75t vs. 2.1.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960304023022.11952E-100000@mramirez.sy.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199603021537.QAA01773@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, J Wunsch wrote:
> As Marc Ramirez wrote:
>
> > Main symptom: data corruption to and from hard disk (Quantum Fireball
> > 1GB, EIDE)
>
> Does it only happen when a ms-dog file system is involved?
Nope. I thought of that possibility, then I tried this from the
holographic shell:
$ cp /dos/fbsd/bin/* .
[data is corrupt but system seems to be happy]
$ cat * > /dev/null
[churns for a bit, then I get a panic due to some
fs structure being corrupt, different every time]
The BIOS doesn't seem to have too many knobs for me to frob... I've
rounded up another small disk and I am trying to find an old cheap IDE
controller. I'll mess around a bit and try to confirm my suspicion that
the on-board IDE and FBSD don't get along. Unfortunately, the computer has
to be enlisted into real work soon, so I don't have much time to play
around with it. Ideally, FBSD will work in some manner, and I can play
around with the driver later.
Marc.
--
There has been as great a proliferation of lawyers in the past 20 years
as there has been a proliferation of computers, and unlike computers,
lawyers do not get twice as intelligent and half as expensive every two
years.
-- E. Burns, "S.F. Bay Guardian"
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