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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 1995 20:39:59 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   MBR corruption
Message-ID:  <199503291839.UAA00295@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>

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Has anyone seen this ? On one system running snap950210, for the
second time in a month or so, I could not reboot after a (voluntary)
because the disk (IDE, 540MB, completely allocated to FreeBSD) had
lost the MBR and the label. Other than this the system looks very
stable (uptimes of 7-10 days usually followed by voluntary reboots).

The disk was "fdisk"ed with the 950210 boot floppy, completely
allocated to FreeBSD with a 30 MB root, 64 MB swap, and the rest
going to /usr.

The system is not under heavy use at the moment (except from serving as
firewall between one student lab and the world). Related to the disk, I
noticed the following in messages :

Mar 27 12:27:34 studenti /kernel: wd0b: wdstart: timeout waiting
for DRQ writing fsbn 23657 of 23656-23671 (wd0 bn 85097; cn 84 tn
6 sn 47)wd0: status 50<seekdone> error 1<no_dam>

Mar 27 12:27:35 studenti /kernel: sio0: 390 more interrupt-level
buffer overflow s (total 390)

Mar 28 14:58:39 studenti /kernel: wd0b: wdstart: timeout waiting
for DRQ writing fsbn 8673 of 8672-8679 (wd0 bn 70113; cn 69 tn 8
sn 57)wd0: status 50<seekdone> error 1<no_dam>

Mar 28 14:58:40 studenti /kernel: sio0: 358 more interrupt-level buffer
overflows (total 748)
Mar 29 18:48:35 studenti /kernel: wd0: interrupt timeout:
Mar 29 18:48:35 studenti /kernel: wd0: status 58<seekdone,drq> error 0
Mar 20 11:49:09 studenti /kernel: wd0: interrupt timeout:
Mar 20 11:49:09 studenti /kernel: wd0: status 58<seekdone,drq> error 4<abort>
Mar 20 11:53:07 studenti /kernel: wd0: interrupt timeout:
Mar 20 11:53:08 studenti /kernel: wd0: status 50<seekdone> error 1<no_dam>
Mar 20 12:08:10 studenti /kernel: mb_map full

Could someone explain them (especially the "wdstart: timeout ..." ones).
Note that the "wd0: interrupt timeout:" seems to always within a few
minutes from a reboot.

	Thanks
	Luigi
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Luigi Rizzo                     Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
tel: +39-50-568533              via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy)
fax: +39-50-568522
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