Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 09:54:41 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: spurious problems with a P150 system Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.92.960330094852.8069A-100000@knobel.gun.de> In-Reply-To: <199603291708.SAA24113@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > I added a new FreeBSD machine recently > (P150, Triton CS, 2x1.5GB IDE (ick),NE2000(ick), 32MB). > > I sup -current over ethernet locally from blues (sup1.de.freebsd.org) > daily and build world and kernel. > > Now and then it happens now that files are clobbered. For example > today I had a totally corrupt /usr/include/sys/errno.h > containing ^H, @ and a lot of characters with bits flipped in them so > it seemed. > > I wonder how this can happen. Bad hardware?, network card?, cache? > memory? The system can build world on the other hand w/o > problems once there is no corrupt file in the tree. > > I tend to assume a network/hw problem. Both systems are running > -current. I had similar problems, that turned out to be hardware problems, i.e. bad termination of SCSI bus. Perhaps there are similar problems regarding IDE bus, if you use 2 IDS disks ... I'd suggest to check BIOS settings. Bring everything to a normal state. The last thing I would do is to remove one harddrive and look, if the problem only arises with 2 disks. After that I'd remove all IDE disks and insert an AHA 2940 PCI controler and a SCSI disks. If the problem vanishes -> go SCSI. Even Windows NT has problems with that cheapo IDE hardware ;-)) - -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ 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 <<< -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMVz20vMLpmkD/U+FAQFi7QQAh8yp8L9ROF5vjutDmv4xbvbc0sG90Jqp eSG0HuMdudKwRsQc4qeXtnE7jdLKOHo9Yb/jLVol/S95NITi8BVqEYsR5UyCLt6S 55D//Hb/HzUTX6scgFyNUULdSrXPLM/fdrdmcklbzPnGI8uuMgOLLaLVIfEAc7sq skOLQlUsJC8= =kDwF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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