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Date:      Thu, 13 May 1999 14:58:31 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Solved: Repeated I/O errors in 3.2-BETA
Message-ID:  <19990513145831.A30789@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990513141923.K89091@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, May 13, 1999 at 02:19:23PM %2B0930
References:  <19990513141923.K89091@freebie.lemis.com>

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On Thursday, 13 May 1999 at 14:19:23 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> I've had a couple of these in a 3.2-BETA box today:
> 
> May 13 14:11:51 daemon /kernel: spec_getpages: I/O read failure: (error code=16)
> May 13 14:11:57 daemon /kernel: size: 65536, resid: 65536, a_count: 65536, valid: 0x0
> May 13 14:11:57 daemon /kernel: nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 0, pcount: 16
> 
> After that, the system is effectively dead.  This is the same system I
> normally run -CURRENT on, so it's not specifically a hardware error.
> It's a pity that the message doesn't specify the device, but I assume
> it has to be the swap partition.  There aren't any other error
> messages.  error appears to be bp->b_error, which means it's an EBUSY,
> which is puzzling enough as it is.

Well, it looks as if it's a dying disk.  Sorry for the false alarm.

Greg
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