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Date:      Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:24:28 -0500
From:      Lee Cremeans <lee@st-lcremean.tidalwave.net>
To:        alk@pobox.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: more psm problems, and an ide thingy
Message-ID:  <19990112122428.B1646@tidalwave.net>
In-Reply-To: <13979.30872.154200.644754@avalon.east>; from Tony Kimball on Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:34:48AM -0600
References:  <13978.54629.887665.309144@avalon.east> <19990112005228.B68879@tidalwave.net> <13979.30872.154200.644754@avalon.east>

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On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 10:34:48AM -0600, Tony Kimball wrote:
> The other drive seems to have no problems at all, and wd2 seems to
> have problems only when accessing certain areas of the disk:  The
> problem can be reproduced consistently by copying from the same file
> repeatedly.  I had interpreted this as an indication of hdwe failure,
> but perhaps it just means the timing depends on the disk area in use?

No; if it were a timing problem, it'd be consistent across the disk. If it's
concentrated in just one area, then your disk may indeed be bad.

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