Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 09:36:52 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew Perry <andrew@python.shoal.net.au> To: Burton Sampley <burton@bsampley.vip.best.com> Cc: Nat Low <natlow@empnet.com>, David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this a failing HD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970302093517.713A-100000@python.shoal.net.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970301114654.179B-100000@bsampley.vip.best.com>
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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$oft Lose95 the drive would start spinning and thrashing for no > apparent reason. After I disinfected my HD of the nasty virus [Lose95] > and dedicated the system to FBSD the problem went away. > > Burton Sampley > I believe the answer to this is that M$ Windows is not a virus - Viruses to something. :-) Andrew Perry andrew@shoal.net.au
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