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From: kbrint@winternet.com (Kevin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Corrupted filesystem with Adaptec 2940
Date: 10 Nov 1995 17:11:16 GMT
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Scott Alexander (salex%/etc/HOSTNAME) wrote:
> I've brought up FreeBSD on 2 different machines and each time, my filesystem
> has become corrupted.  The machines in question are Pentium 133's (Tyan
> motherboard) with Adaptec 2940 SCSI cards (w/ a Connor 1G disk and a NEC
> CD-ROM and, on one of the machines, an HP 2G disk), an ATI Mach64 VGA
> card, a Soundblaster 16, a 3c509b, and, on the machine with the HP
> disk, a Boca 28.8 modem.  On the machine with the single disk, I installed
> 2.0.5.  In the first instance, after completing the install on a Friday,
> I found the machine incapable of booting on Sunday when I stopped by
> work.  After reinstalling, the filesystem was again corrupted, this
> time when I was performing a find in /usr.  I rebooted after noticing
> that the status of the /usr/lib directory was inconsistent (causing
> dynamic linking to fail), but fsck wasn't able to clean up the system
> sufficiently to make the system usable.

I've had similar corruption on my machine.. At the time of the
corruption, I was running on a Connor 1 gig drive as well.  After
switching to a 1 gig Seagate hawk, I have not seen any corruption
(granted, it's only been 4 days).  I'm using a VLB Buslogic Bt44xC.  The
only other device on the SCSI chain is a WangDAT 1300 SCSI-1 tape drive.

If you can, try taking out the Connor and running a week or so on a
different drive.

-kevin-

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