From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 2 02:21:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA23611 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 02:21:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guava.blueberry.co.uk ([194.70.52.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA23606 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 02:21:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by guava.blueberry.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA14194 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:15:25 +0100 (BST) From: Nik Clayton Message-Id: <199610020915.KAA14194@guava.blueberry.co.uk> Subject: Re: [Q] extraneous data discarded To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:15:25 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk A long time ago, Thu, 16 Nov 1995 to be precise, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote, > i got a new new message in the logs today: > > sd1(ncr0:1:0): extraneous data discarded. > sd1(ncr0:1:0): extraneous data discarded. > > this occurred during a /sbin/dump run. what does it mean? should i be > alarmed? what can i do about it? I'm getting the same message, in the same situation (running 'dump', courtesy of amanda). Searching the mailing list archives, I don't see any followup to this message. I'm assuming this is a fairly benign error, but it'd be nice to know whether I should be worrying or not. I'd include a copy of the boot probe for my disks, but I can't, because the uptime on this box is so long that the last boot probe has rolled out of /var/log/messages* B-) N -- --+=[ Blueberry Hill Blueberry New Media ]=+-- --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+-- --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk London, England, SW10 0XE ]=+-- --+=[ Somedays, I wonder why I even bother chewing through the straps. ]ENTP