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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.idt.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Disk crash problem...any ideas of what is going wrong? Date: 22 Dec 1996 16:19:21 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <59jn29$eos@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32AF6751.41C6@ucdavis.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32987 Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu> wrote: > I realize that I will probably have to clear everything off my > disk and re-do my partitions, but can anyone see what I have > done wrong (as this problem seems to keep coming up). Note: > eventhough the DC-4030VL is a VL-Bus IDE caching disk controller, > I have turned the cache off and am using the mainboard bios. I would nevertheless suspect the controller. Perhaps it's trashing data as they are written to the disk. Note that UFS tries to spread all the data equally around in a partition, so your ``the problem starts if the partition is half filled'' makes me really wonder. All this is very strange. You aren't perchance running some sort of DOSish ``disk manager'' on it either? Before reinstalling, try to clean out all crap from the disk using dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0 count=1000 -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)