From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 11:21:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B63D37B401 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 11:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACABF43F3F for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 11:21:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h46ILvLr056603; Tue, 6 May 2003 20:21:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Heiko Schaefer From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 May 2003 20:18:03 +0200." <20030506201618.J66653@daneel.foundation.hs> Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 20:21:57 +0200 Message-ID: <56602.1052245317@critter.freebsd.dk> cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: data corruption with current (maybe sis chipset related?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 18:21:59 -0000 In message <20030506201618.J66653@daneel.foundation.hs>, Heiko Schaefer writes: >Hi Poul, > >> >more numbers: i typically see 1-2 blocks of corrupted data (32kb is the >> >size of corrupted data i usually see) on that 60gb disk. >> >> I just saw this as well in the stdout+stderr from a make universe :-( > >erm... this sounds exciting to me, but i have no clue what you actually >mean. could you enlighten me ? :) > >as i am currently spending heavy thought on investing more money in >hardware to solve my problem, any hints regarding software-reasons would >be most appreciated. I have no clue to software reasons yet, but the fact that I saw something similar means that you should not rush out to get new hardware just yet. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.