From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 20 11:22:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA28165 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:22:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA28156 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:22:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA04917; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:21:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:21:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jean-Francois Routhier cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble with FreeBSD 2.2 (Hard disk or controller) In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19971119185212.0069fa08@mail> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Jean-Francois Routhier wrote: > >> Is there a way for me to check if my hard disk is the problem or my > >> controller or maybe FreeBSD itself. > Thanks for answering Doug, > My controller is on my motherboard. > Brand of the Motherboard: PENTIUM GA-586ATV PCI-ISABUS > Chips used to control IDE: SB82371SB or SB82437VX (Intel) (I'm not sure which) OK, that's a Gigabyte motherboard with standard Intel IDE controllers. That should be OK. I was looking if you had a CMD chip. > Also, I'v actually had the chance to run bad144 and here is the kind of > error it gave me: > bad144: cyl/trk/sect out of range in existing entry: sn=28766658 cn=28531, > tn=116, sn=102 > > So what do you think that means ? Is my server writing data outside its > partitions ? If you have something on there that could be construed as a bad-sector table, it may be using that. If you ran bad144 it should clean it up. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major