From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 12 04:53:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA18076 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 04:53:32 -0700 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA18070 ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 04:53:29 -0700 Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.3) id HAA26421; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 07:52:22 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199506121152.HAA26421@hda.com> Subject: Re: Problem with 2940 To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 07:52:21 -0400 (EDT) Cc: gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com, evanc@synapse.net, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506120055.RAA01675@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jun 11, 95 05:55:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1229 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Rodney W. Grimes writes: > > > Or display hardware that is adding a bit to the character, or main > memory (do you have 36 bit simms and a chip set that does memory > parity creation and checking)? I find that it is very hard to believe > you even got far enough to get the system booted if the data was really > this way in memory or on disk, all your binaries should be corrupt. > > This also tends to rule out the cache, as your binaries should be blowing > chunks all over the place (or maybe they are and you failed to mention > that). > > I am really really suspecting display hardware here, can you telnet in > and see if the files look fine over a telnet connection???? > > Do cksums on the files match those from a good system?? > I'm also surprised that he managed to post that message yet sees this type of failure in the text files. Recall that he says that if he re-extracts the files and they come out OK they stay OK. The failure is consistent with a given file. That seems to eliminate anything outside of the disk-memory-disk loop. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267