Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 00:35:31 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Subject: Re: hardware meltdown or cosmic ray? Message-ID: <14602.37059.886168.353842@whale.home-net> In-Reply-To: <20000429011240.A50701@panzer.kdm.org> References: <14602.26788.441429.641364@whale.home-net> <20000429011240.A50701@panzer.kdm.org>
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[ On Saturday, April 29, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: ] > > One thing you didn't mention was what version of FreeBSD you are using. > > I suspect you're using a version that has block devices. The above command dad-nabit ... I *KNEW* there was something gnawing at me to put in there before I hit "send" .... yes, I'm using 3.4-STABLE which still has the block devices. > some sort of cabling or termination problem. That may or may not be the > case here, I dunno. > > It may be a cabling or connector problem that is triggered by using the > cdrom drive. Hmmmm. I sure hope not .... this has never happened before .. > In any case, you should probably use the raw device, and a multiple of the > sector size to get an image of the disc, like this: > > dd if=/dev/rcd0c of=disc.iso bs=64k So this 'dd' command will work with 4.0 (and -current)? > I doubt that will fix the problem, but it would be interesting to see if > you can use the above command to try to reproduce the problem. If you can > reproduce the problem, I would start looking for cabling or termination > problems. OK. I'll try and read in the image again with the raw device and see what happens. It's been acting like a champ since it freaked (and I've since copied 6 discs using the exact same method ... wierd). Thanks for the answers! -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= John Reynolds Chandler Capabilities Engineering, CDS, Intel Corporation jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com My opinions are mine, not Intel's. Running jjreynold@home.com FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE. FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://members.home.com/jjreynold/ Come join us!!! @ http://www.FreeBSD.org/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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