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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uop!csus.edu!netcom.com!mvh From: mvh@netcom.com (Michael Harding) Subject: Re: Help! File system gets corrupted Message-ID: <mvhDCnt2F.6r9@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <mvhDCn9Mx.ItK@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 01:20:38 GMT Lines: 30 Sender: mvh@netcom16.netcom.com I just got another interesting data point - our local mail server is having the same problems, and is running 1.1.5.1! FIles are get chomped regularly - it's causing our MIS guy some grief. All hardware has been replaced except the disk drive (no wise guy comments, please). All of my hardware referred to is new. Michael Harding (mvh@netcom.com) wrote: : On my system, doing a fsck will usually give me : /DUP/BAD BLOCK : errors every couple of days, and will trash one or more random files. : I did a clean install, did a 'make world' : on the source directory after properly installing /usr/bin, and I : get these errors if I check immediately after it finishes! (in single : user mode on an unomounted volume, of course). It's driving me crazy! : The system seems to otherwise work fine. These errors would not be : detected by startup as the clean flag is set. : Would this be caused by i/o or memory problems? Any suggestions on what : to 'back off' to see if it makes the system more reliable? I have 3 : boards on a 40mhz VLB bus - could this be causing problems? : I am using : 2.05 release CD : AMD DX2/80 w/ a 40mhz bus : WD caviar drive, ~700 Mb. w/ 100 m DOS, reset BSD : Soundblaster 16 with sony 2x SCSI cdrom : Promise VLB disk/i.o board : Diamond stealth 64 DRAM