Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:53:11 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> Cc: "'Sheldon Hearn'" <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: HD errors, what do they mean? Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.991019204045.321B-100000@CENTRAL> In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105D07@site2s1>
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On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote:
> Could it be the controller? Because all 3 drives in the system have been
> giving periodic strange errors. This just started happening yesterday out
> of the blue, and this appears to be the worst so far.
>
> The drive itself isn't very old, and has performed well. I hope it's not
> the drive, but I do have current backups anyway, just to be safe.
Faintly possible that you have a power supply problem if all 3 drives are
doing it, due to poor regulation (ie some device utilisation pattern
causes heavy power demand, dropping supply voltage).
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