Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:05:47 +0200 From: cpl92@fx.ro To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sever ide hdd crash (also re:Another instance of the crash I was seeing) Message-ID: <364A0A3A.EEBFB63A@fx.ro>
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Hi, I experienced yesterday a sever ide hdd crash. My computer is not operating these days, so please answer also to this address I'm using now. First I want to make a short histiry of this serious ide problem. One month ago, I was using 2.2.6-RELEASE. Someday, while I was reading the first FreeBSD CD in WALNUT CREAK distribution set, the ATA CD slow down, and was acting like having reading trouble from the CD inside (possible the CD wasn't clean). By chance, I swiched to text connsole and saw the syslog message repeating many times:(smth like) wd0 i/o error swiched to 16 bit transfer. I killed the process that was accessing the ATA CD, and than fsck my wd0 partitions: surprize! the /usr slice was damaged (I couldn't fix it due to many errors like unref inode etc.). One day ago, under the same circumstances (only that the used dist was 2.2.7-RELEASE), while I was looking far a tarball distribution in CD #3 (WALNUT CREAK 2.2.7), I heard the CD slowing down. Knowing what happened last time, I tried alt+ctrl+F1 to see the syslog mesg. Surprize again: the computer was not responding to any of the possible commands. I have waited a couple of minutes (the hdd was not running), then I have pushed the front pannel reset button. Surprize again: While reseting the computer I received the BIOS message PRIMARY HDD FAILURE. Since then, my BIOS says that I don't have a HDD inside (actually I have a Quantum Fireball UDMA 4.3 Gb). I hope that the vendor will change the damaged hdd, but I am quite sure that this is a very serious problem in FreeBSD kernel. Regards, Florin Nicolescu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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