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Date:      Mon, 16 Dec 1996 14:25:54 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Keith A. Fredericks" <keith@kellysoftware.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: file system problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961216142450.496C-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <32B5B4EA.336C@kellysoftware.com>

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On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Keith A. Fredericks wrote:

> This time, I was in X playing a music CD and bringing up Netscape.
> The cursor locked and the screen blanked and the machine rebooted.
> I had many bad files in the manual fsck of my /usr file system.
> 
> I have a NEC p133 w/Aurora motherboard with 48M RAM that includes
> the S3 Trio64V+ and the Vibra 16 chips.  I have a Toshiba XM-5401B
> SCSI CD-ROM drive and a Micropolis 4.2G AV SCSI drive and the
> Adaptec 2940 controller.  Also, I have the 3com 3c590 pci ethernet
> card.
> 
> What is killing my file system?  How can I prevent this?  I will
> try to figure this out, but I thought someone might have run into
> this and can tell me what to change.

Is anything appearing on the console?  It sounds like a bad disk, cable,
or controller.  

Are you shutting down the machine with shutdown(8) when you turn it off?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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