Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 08:35:55 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> To: Siegbert Baude <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of swap causes signal 11 or fatal trap 12 Message-ID: <3A814F3B.B7B41311@mail.iowna.com> References: <002f01c090b7$fb29a800$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> <3A80C5C3.1C5AF30B@mail.iowna.com> <004601c090bd$dc8694c0$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de>
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Siegbert Baude wrote: > > Thanks for the fast response (also to Matthew), > > > Siegbert Baude wrote: > > > > > dmesg snippet: > > > ad0: 6197MB <IBM-DHEA-36481> [12592/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 > > > > How old is this drive? Could be hardware on the way out. I had problems > > like this about a month ago and fixed it by replacing an old, overworked > > HDD. > > This disk is about 2 years old. Not too much, but you never know. Is there a > possibility to test the surface of the disk within FBSD? Else (changing the > partition to dos and using scandisk seems possible but dangerous)? I never > noticed any problems with it so far, are there other possibilities? Sure there are other possibilities. I just pointed this out because it happened to me recently. I wouldn't recommend the DOS thing, scandisk isn't very reliable at detecting bad areas anyway (in my experience) but I don't know of any BSD based programs to do this either. Some other things that could be wrong could be SW bug, RAM problem, IDE controller flaky, etc. Lots of possibilities. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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