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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Handling of disk errors
To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass)
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 12:31:53 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: hardware@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199607251054.EAA12577@lariat.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at Jul 25, 96 04:54:57 am
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 we just had both these problems

we had to change the disk
to mode0.. it was to fast for the bus in mode4
(haven't tried modes 1,2,3)
this resulted in bad transfers and memory faults

> 
> I've just attempted to put FreeBSD on a system whose hard disk has a few
> weak spots. The system is reporting soft ECC errors on reads now and
> then. How do I map these areas out? Also, when I attempted to recompile
> the kernel, cc balked in the middle, saying
> 
> cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
> 
> Sendmail also died with a sig 13. Could this be a result of the soft
> disk errors, or is it due to something else?
> 
> --Brett
>