Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 13:01:36 +0000 () From: Nat Low <natlow@empnet.com> To: Burton Sampley <burton@bsampley.vip.best.com> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this a failing HD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970301125809.3735A-100000@highdesert.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970301114654.179B-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com>
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Unix in all forms seems to be more fragile when it comes to hardware. For instance, go ahead and laugh, but I work on my smaller machines alot while they're running. Occasionally, the IDE cable might accidentally become partially or completely disconnected. On a FreeBSD or Linux box, it immediately displays a kernel panic and reboots...sometimes just re, and doesn't boot. On a win95 box, I generally just plug the cable back in, and test to see that windows still is able to access the drive. On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Burton Sampley wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Nat Low wrote: > > > On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, David Kelly wrote: > > > > > Sitting in the room I heard a HD spinning up and down and up. Noticed > > > messages on the console. System seemed ok, so I tried "find / -name junk". > > > Kernel panic 12 sometime after find moved over to a SCSI drive. Swap is on > > > the problem drive. > > > > I had this same exact problem occur sparatically with an old IDE 1.6Gig > > Maxtor drive. It's since been replaced with SCSI equipment and I put it > > in a win95 box. It's been running that win95 machine for quite a while > > now, no problems yet. > > > > Funny. I had the exact opposite problem. I have a Western Digital 1.6 > EIDE drive. When I didn't know any better and I was still running > Micro$oft Lose95 the drive would start spinning and thrashing for no > apparent reason. After I disinfected my HD of the nasty virus [Lose95] > and dedicated the system to FBSD the problem went away. > > Burton Sampley > >
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