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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: can ccd(4) crash a hard drive?
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 22:42:24 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Wayne Farmer <wayne@telstra.net>

Wayne Farmer wrote:
> I somehow doubt it but I have also tried striping 2 x 2Gb Seagate Hawks
> on 2.1.5 and thay ran for about 2 days then fell over in a screaming

This sounds like another hardware failure coincident with running CCD
but not actually caused by it.  Sig 11's point to bad memory or cache,
not the disk I/O subsystem at all.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project