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Date:      Fri, 14 Dec 2001 18:00:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        hardware@freebsd.org
Cc:        msmith@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Question about a strange hardware problem 
Message-ID:  <200112150200.fBF203608508@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <200112150143.fBF1hLb05808@mass.dis.org>
References:  <200112150143.fBF1hLb05808@mass.dis.org>

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In article <200112150143.fBF1hLb05808@mass.dis.org>,
Mike Smith  <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> > The system has been up for 317 days.  It seems like if the problem
> > were in the RAM (the obvious place), it would have crashed by now.
> 
> That's not a given at all.

Agreed.  I'm just playing a guessing game.

> > Given all that, it seems to me that the problem must be in the drive
> > electronics of da0.  What do you think?  As a test, I've moved the
> > files that always show the errors over to da1 for a while, to see if
> > that fixes it.
> 
> That's a good test, and I'd want to see the results of it before making
> any more judgements, although you might just be masking the problem. 8(

I'll let you know what happens.

John
-- 
  John Polstra
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa


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