Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 21:44:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: nirva@ishiboo.com Subject: Re: -current kills harddrives Message-ID: <199608231944.VAA01255@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <20865.840816321@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Aug 23, 96 09:05:21 am"
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I seriously doubt that -current is killing your hard drives. > Some things you just can't do from software, even if you wanted > to. At least not this way... Basically, the drive in question seem to have initiated a SCSI bus reset. It's probably a problem in our drivers if the system doesn't survive the bus reset, but the origin of the problem is a hardware fault of your drive. Btw., i've once seen strange error messages caused by weak power supply cabling. Yes, i was finally fully convinced that the disk must be bad, bought a replacement, transfered one gig worth of data over to the replacement (which worked fine), and had all my troubles back once i had mounted the new drive in the same location as the supposedly to be broken old one. :-/ -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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