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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!nntp.msstate.edu!Ra.MsState.Edu!aak2 From: aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New SNAP and swap problems Date: 8 May 1996 00:50:27 -0500 Organization: Mississippi State University Lines: 26 Message-ID: <aak2.831534353@Ra.MsState.Edu> References: <aak2.831366925@Ra.MsState.Edu> <318FE1F7.ABD322C@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: ra.msstate.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes: >Yikes! >I think you may have a bad spot on your disk. Have you tried formatting >it and reinstalling? I would *not* make a production machine out of >something reporting this error. Your drive may also be bad and merit >replacement. Thats strange. Its a brand new 2.5GB Western Digital IDE drive. The only problem I see is that it just a VERY big *IDE* drive. I had a difficult time getting BIOS to work with it. I did suspect that my drive maybe was bad or had bad sectors but when I formatted it for DOS and ran scandisk and did surface checking it did not report any errors at all. I didn't know how to do an equivalent thing in FreeBSD. My drive may very well be bad. I ordered another identical brand new drive and will try it with that drive. I will also try putting it in more than one machine to see if that helps. For now I am preparing this drive for a release 2.1 install and see if the resolves the problem. I won't be re-formatting the drive. Atif Khan aak2@ra.msstate.edu