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Date:      Sat, 27 Oct 2001 20:44:12 GMT
From:      zietlow@berbee.com
To:        Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>, Rob Zietlow <Zietlow@berbee.com>, Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Lowlevel format
Message-ID:  <200110272044.f9RKiCu26044@berbee.com>

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Heh...great memory issue....well being the only computer I own with this type 
of memory that's going to be great :-) along with the fact that it already has 
48 installed...hopefully they are 16's that I can swap out, been a while since 
I have been in this box. 

Thanks for the suggestions.

Rob


> On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Rob Zietlow wrote:
> 
> > Anyone familar with a utility that will perform a low level format on a 
hard
> > disk before an install?  I believe that I am having issues with my hard 
disk
> > and I would like to give this a try. 5 times I have installed and gotten 5
> > different sefaults when I try to run make buildworld, but install make
> > buildworld works fine on another spare computer around the house, so I am
> > pretty sure it isn't anything with cvsup.
> 
> A HDD low level format will almost surely not make your segfaults go away
> - in fact, I bet everything I own on that ;-) Your problem, so the
> segfaults are most likely caused by a hardware flaw. These little memory
> modules are always the first things to blame when this happens. So, I
> suggest that you take the RAM modules out of the machine that has the
> problems and put some other ones in there. If make buildworld works now,
> you can be sure that your RAM was causing the problem. The only thing
> remaining to be found out is which of your modules to throw in the trash
> can. In order to find that out, you'd be best off by simply swapping,
> piece by piece, your RAM modules. In the end you should see that you only
> get the problem when a certain module is in your machine.
> 
> Other causes for segfaults during make buildworld could be overclocking,
> or problems with other hardware components. The hard disk should, however,
> not be the cause, and a low level format would definately not change
> anything.
> 
> Greetings
> Nils
> 
> 
> Nils Holland
> Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany
> http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org
> 





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