From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 11 02:36:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA10611 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 02:36:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp20.portal.net.au [202.12.71.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA10606 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 02:36:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA01099; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 19:03:27 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199710110933.TAA01099@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Chris Caputo cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1-stable: "vnode_pager_input: I/O read error" messages In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Oct 1997 06:23:19 MST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 19:03:26 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Whoops, sorry about the blank preceeding this. > Hi. Does anyone have any insight into what these messages really mean or > what the fix is (besides going to 2.2-stable ;-)? They seem to come in > spurts - none for a few days, then some for a few hours, then none for a > few days, etc. The error message means exactly what it says; an I/O read error (probably hardware) has occurred. This normally means that (surprise, surprise) you have harware problems. Are there any error messages coming from your disk controller? Sometimes RAM faults can cause these symptoms as well. > It does not appear that we actually have a hardware problem (disks check > out, controller checks out, etc.). What do you mean by "check out"? mike