Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:53:11 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> Cc: "'Sheldon Hearn'" <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: HD errors, what do they mean? Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.991019204045.321B-100000@CENTRAL> In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105D07@site2s1>
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On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: > Could it be the controller? Because all 3 drives in the system have been > giving periodic strange errors. This just started happening yesterday out > of the blue, and this appears to be the worst so far. > > The drive itself isn't very old, and has performed well. I hope it's not > the drive, but I do have current backups anyway, just to be safe. Faintly possible that you have a power supply problem if all 3 drives are doing it, due to poor regulation (ie some device utilisation pattern causes heavy power demand, dropping supply voltage). -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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