From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 22 12:23:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EFAC16A4BF for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:23:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc2.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C094C43F3F for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:23:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@yumyumyum.org) Received: by mailhub.yumyumyum.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 82E643B2; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:23:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhub.yumyumyum.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7522D56; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:23:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:23:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Culver To: Matthew Seaman In-Reply-To: <20030822185044.GA94845@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Message-ID: <20030822151824.A9376@alpha.yumyumyum.org> References: <20030822185044.GA94845@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Steve Warwick cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Something rotten in the OS? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:23:18 -0000 > I think that you've just been unlucky in buying two hard drives or > whatever which have failed prematurely. I think if there was such a > bug in FreeBSD, a lot more people than you would be complaining and > heaven and earth would be being moved in order to fix it. > I would have to agree that it's probably a heat issue if you're sure the hard drives are made by a good manufacturer. I have had hard drives go with basically the same behavior because they didn't have any air movement around them. Make sure those things are properly ventilated. I doubt VERY seriously that this is a FreeBSD problem. I've been using FreeBSD on all my own machines for roughly 6 years now, and have never seen anything go wrong that wasn't related to bad hardware. FreeBSD is also used in several very busy places such as yahoo.com and sony japan's websites, and I doubt either of those companies would put up with what you're seeing. Basically to sum it up, your hardware is broken and you can be almost totally sure it's not FreeBSD's fault. (I'd suspect overheating damaging ur hd's or other components) Ken