From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 26 22:04:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA05605 for current-outgoing; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 22:04:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA05591 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 1996 22:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA20470; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:03:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA11267; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:01:17 -0400 (EDT) To: rv@groa.uct.ac.za (Russell Vincent) cc: current@FreeBSD.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Oct 22 panic In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 Oct 1996 12:47:21 +0200." Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 01:01:17 -0400 Message-ID: <11265.846392477@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Russell Vincent wrote in message ID : > I am not sure if this will be of any use to anyone. An Oct 22 -current > kernel panic'ed with the following data. I did an Adaptec verify of > the 3 disks involved in the ccd config of that filesystem and they > all turned up clean. Beware: the adaptec verify DOES NOT do a good test of the disks ... soft errors are missed as the drive or adapter auto-retries. The only way is to either listen to the drive(s) during the verify or NOT to use that for testing the drives. I prefer `dd if=/dev/ of=/dev/null bs=64k' myself. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info