From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 19 13:10: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2317172E6 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 13:09:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Debian/GNU) with UUCP id GAA19299; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 06:00:18 +1000 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA22741; Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:57:20 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:53:11 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Christopher Michaels Cc: "'Sheldon Hearn'" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: HD errors, what do they mean? In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105D07@site2s1> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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