From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 29 00:17:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA20709 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 00:17:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mramirez.sy.yale.edu (mramirez.sy.yale.edu [130.132.57.207]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA20702 for ; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 00:17:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mrami@localhost) by mramirez.sy.yale.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) id DAA13550; Thu, 29 Feb 1996 03:17:47 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 03:17:47 -0500 (EST) From: Marc Ramirez Reply-To: mrami@minerva.cis.yale.edu To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Dell Dimension P75t vs. 2.1.0-RELEASE Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk The Dell won... Main symptom: data corruption to and from hard disk (Quantum Fireball 1GB, EIDE) The disk is on a wdc on the motherboard (the motherboard has two, actually; the disk is on the primary one). The problem seems to appear during burst activity of two or three seconds of data transfer. Copying the bindist from the Win95 partition to the FreeBSD one results in a bunch of corrupt files, if it completes, or a filesystem panic. I say that the data loss occurs in bursts because the root disk is extracted successfully onto the disk, and in the large mass copy mentioned above, usually bin.aa and part of bin.ab come out okay. Of course, I never finished the install, so I can't really say if there are any other problems. Does anyone have any suggestions / workarounds / whatever? Oh, I played with a VR <-> VRE switch on the motherboard (only one I didn't know what the function was), but neither setting seemed to make a difference. As it looks now, it's going to have to run Linux (the Red Hat distribution works flawlessly). Bummer. :( Marc. Next week: re-attach the IDE CD-ROM and see if we can still get a lockup from reading. -- "I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day cause that means it's going to be up all night." -- Steven Wright