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From: ceb@netcom5.netcom.com (Ch. Buckley)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.0.2: Random Disk Errors on Upgrade (with Workaround)
In-Reply-To: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie's message of 12 Feb 1994 17:35:03 GMT
Message-ID: <CEB.94Feb13181624@netcom5.netcom.com>
Sender: ceb@netcom.com (Ch. Buckley)
Organization: Mauto, Palo Alto
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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 1994 02:16:07 GMT
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In article <JKH.94Feb12173503@whisker.hubbard.ie> jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Date: 12 Feb 1994 17:35:03 GMT
In article <CEB.94Feb11171729@netcom8.netcom.com> ceb@netcom8.netcom.com (Ch. Buckley) writes:
I recently updated an extremely reliable FreeBSD 1.0 Gamma box to
1.0.2. I had heard so many bad things about the patch scripts I
didn't even try them. But even starting over, I ran into a problem.
I think that's a little unfair, and being more open-minded would have
probably saved you some grief! :-)
Oh, come on. I was just being cautious, and it should have worked.
I was just being helpful in posting.
You know I think the FreeBSD is good. Do I detect a heart on a sleeve?
If I just stick in the new floppies, and run through the setup, it
works, but when it comes time to unpack the distribution files, I got
random unpacking errors doing cat /usr/dist/bin_tgz* | tar xvfz -.
FreeBSD was the only partition on the SCSI disk, with a 1542
controller.
Have you considered that maybe you have some bad floppies? 99.9% of
the time when we get reports like this, that's exactly what's
happened! People buy these $3.99 per 50 boxes of serbo-croatian
floppies and then expect them all to work flawlessly. Sheesh..
Same floppies before and after -- I didn't even rewrite them. (I do
try the obvious things.) By the way, these days, the floppies may be
Serbian, or the may be Croatian, but I doubt they'd be both any more.
Anyway, the really questionable floppies used to come from Bulgaria.
Math coprocessors, too.
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