From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 19 09:59:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA05217 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:59:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA05204 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:59:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA03366; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:59:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 09:59:00 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Marie-Josee Blais cc: freebsd-questions-digest@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble with FreeBSD 2.2 (Hard disk or controller) In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19971111163514.006ae26c@mail> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk People keep inventing new mailing addresses for questions faster than I can add them to my filters. :-) On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Marie-Josee Blais wrote: > My FreeBSD server seems to be thrashing my hard disk bit per bit. > > Once in a while I get messages telling me that a certain file on my system > has bad data. > Most of the time I don't use those files so I erase them. > > Is there a way for me to check if my hard disk is the problem or my > controller or maybe FreeBSD itself. What brand and model of controller and disks do you have? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major