From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 3 23:44:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA09825 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 23:44:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mramirez.sy.yale.edu ([130.132.57.207]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA09820 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 23:44:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mrami@localhost) by mramirez.sy.yale.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id CAA12668; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 02:43:55 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 02:43:54 -0500 (EST) From: Marc Ramirez Reply-To: mrami@minerva.cis.yale.edu To: J Wunsch cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Dimension P75t vs. 2.1.0-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <199603021537.QAA01773@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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"