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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.thepoint.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: New SNAP and swap problems X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4mrf4q$cqd@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's Machine References: <aak2.831366925@ra.msstate.edu> <4modd6$aut@uriah.heep.sax.de> <aak2.831534226@Ra.MsState.Edu> Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 00:44:10 GMT Lines: 27 In article <aak2.831534226@Ra.MsState.Edu>, Atif Ahmad Khan <aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu> wrote: >j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: > >>aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) wrote: > >>> /kernel: wd0s1b: hard error reading fsbn 3226 of 3200-3263 (wd0s1 bn >>> 4713626; cn 4676 tn 3 sn 29)wd0: status 59<seekdone,drq,err> error 40<uncorr> > >>Poor hardware. Since i know John Dyson has been making good >>experiences with his WD drive, i rather suspect a timing problem (or >>interrupt problem) with the controller. Perhaps also bus timing can >>get into your way. > >Strange thing is that I only get the errors on the swap partition and >not any other partitions, no matter how much I thrash them. I also >FAT formatted the drive and ran surface scans and got no errors. > The "error 40" comes from the drive itself (via the IDE interface.) Are the disk addresses repeatable? Take a look at the wd0s1 bn #. If the errors are all in the same physical region, you might be having the "WD drive problem" that some people have been talking about on the comp.sys.ibm.pc.storage or somesuch... My 2.5GByte drive has been working fine... If they work well, they work very well, I guess. John dyson@freebsd.org