Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 14:05:07 +0200 (MET DST) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD-current users <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>, nirva@ishiboo.com Subject: Re: -current kills harddrives Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960824135907.1947A-100000@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199608231944.VAA01255@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I seriously doubt that -current is killing your hard drives. > > Some things you just can't do from software, even if you wanted > > to. > > At least not this way... > > Basically, the drive in question seem to have initiated a SCSI bus > reset. It's probably a problem in our drivers if the system doesn't > survive the bus reset, but the origin of the problem is a hardware > fault of your drive. > > Btw., i've once seen strange error messages caused by weak power > supply cabling. Yes, i was finally fully convinced that the disk must > be bad, bought a replacement, transfered one gig worth of data over to > the replacement (which worked fine), and had all my troubles back once > i had mounted the new drive in the same location as the supposedly to > be broken old one. :-/ Same experiences here. I had harddisk troubles when connecting a fast disk (4.3GB Quantum Grand Prix) to a cheapo external SCSI tower. I was about sending the 4 month old drive to Quantum, because the disk worked fine for some time in the external case. The error was reproduceable, every now and then the Quantum harddrive changed speed and such things... Even enother new drive (5400 U/min) had problems in this external SCSI tower. Before sending the drives away I thought, it can't be true, that 2 drives get damaged in such a short period of time. And voila ... in my PC Big Tower both drives again ran fine !!! So I think, too, you should check power supply and such, first ! -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<
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