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From: gfm@werple.mira.net.au (Graham Menhennitt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Help! File system damaged after normal reboot!
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Date: 6 Jan 1995 03:52:04 GMT
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In article <D1uD3I.Ep@store.elvisti.kiev.ua>,
Andrew V. Stesin <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua> wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>my FreeBSD-1.1.5 started suddenly to show an unusual and annoying
>behavior when booting up after a normal `halt` or `reboot`.
>The machine -- 486dx50 with VESA IDE, manufactured by SOYO(tm)
>and 2 Conner 420Mb disks -- randomly suffers a trouble.
>
>fsck tells that there are "unexpected inconsistencies",
>"DUP/BAD" and shows some inode No. Last time it happened, fsck
>tried to remove libc.a!!! 

I had a similar problem with a Conner disk. This was a 1.0 Gb SCSI though.
It had something to do with multi-sector reads being corrupted. It was NOT
due to anything wrong on the disk. I have since replaced the disk and so I
don't see it any more.

Graham