Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 09:54:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Hans Zaunere <zaunere@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Maybe its a hardware problem, maybe not Message-ID: <20010724165445.36109.qmail@web12808.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello, I've gotten FreeBSD 4.4.3 installed and downloaded a tarball which I proceeded to extract. Towards the end of the extraction the kernel died with a page fault error and rebooted the system. After rebooting and fixing the disk with fsck, this problem repeated several times. I also tried to build some ports and the same thing happened. During the install, when it was copying files it would die with the "Wrote -1 bytes of 202423" or whatever it was. After turning the computer off, unplugging it and letting it set, and trying several times the system finally installed. Now everyone says that I should face the music that my harddrive is dieing. Well, I seriously doubt it. Its been a bulletproof system under Linux and has good hardware (Adaptec SCSI controller, Seagate Cheetah drive, Pentium 2, Intel mobo). I put FreeBSD on it, and wham, all sorts of wierd issues. My questions are these: is FreeBSD more "sensitive" to hardware failures or misconfigurations? Is there a way to diagnose if in fact the harddrive is dieing? What could be some causes of these oddities, besides the blatant "your drive is dieing" which I seriously doubt. By the way, before installing 4.4.3 I installed 2.2.8 while waiting to get the new CD. It installed without a hitch and didn't see any problems with the system until 4.4.3 came on. (I did a clean, format, etc.) I'd be completely willing to provide any other information if needed. Please contact me at the below email address. Thank you, Hans Zaunere zaunere@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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