From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 19:21:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB5B916A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 19:21:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail-relay4.mirrorimage.net (mail-relay4.mirrorimage.net [209.58.140.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67F1743D3F for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 19:21:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from FreeBSD@keyslapper.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [10.10.4.59]) by mail-relay4.mirrorimage.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 0005A692E9 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:21:21 -0500 (EST) Received: by localhost (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:25:18 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:25:18 -0500 From: Louis LeBlanc To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041108192517.GC21655@keyslapper.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <52aaba24041108095717087968@mail.gmail.com> <20041108184256.GB21655@keyslapper.org> <52aaba24041108110450c3eea@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <52aaba24041108110450c3eea@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:21:22 -0000 On 11/08/04 08:04 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: > "I've been getting WRITE_DMA timeouts in /var/log/messages though, > typically 1 to 3 of them before the lockup. Have you noticed any of > these?" > Nope, nothing of that kind. > Can't check for earlier times since I've reinstalled since then. But > the error tonight didn't report anything. > > Please get back to me if you manage to survive any large data-transfers :) > In that case; "5.3 HERE I COME" :p Will do. I've been eagerly awaiting 5.3 to deal with this exact problem. Typically, building OpenOffice.org will tell one way or another, and it should be going on now - unless it's already locked up. I'll find out when I get home this evening and let you know. If it doesn't lock up, I'll try building a couple large packages simultaneously (like Mozilla and jdk1.4). That will be the absolute indicator. If it does lock up, I'll be reinstalling some time this week with the fdisk geometry forced to that recommended by WD, and running back through the disk loads described above. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD@keyslapper.org Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ This isn't true in practice -- what we've missed out is Stradivarius's constant. And then the aside: "For those of you who don't know, that's been called by others the fiddle factor..." -- From a 1B Electrical Engineering lecture.