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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!netnews.upenn.edu!salex From: salex%/etc/HOSTNAME (Scott Alexander) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Corrupted filesystem with Adaptec 2940 Date: 7 Nov 1995 01:50:42 GMT Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 27 Message-ID: <47me1i$gue@netnews.upenn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gummikuh.cis.upenn.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I've brought up FreeBSD on 2 different machines and each time, my filesystem has become corrupted. The machines in question are Pentium 133's (Tyan motherboard) with Adaptec 2940 SCSI cards (w/ a Connor 1G disk and a NEC CD-ROM and, on one of the machines, an HP 2G disk), an ATI Mach64 VGA card, a Soundblaster 16, a 3c509b, and, on the machine with the HP disk, a Boca 28.8 modem. On the machine with the single disk, I installed 2.0.5. In the first instance, after completing the install on a Friday, I found the machine incapable of booting on Sunday when I stopped by work. After reinstalling, the filesystem was again corrupted, this time when I was performing a find in /usr. I rebooted after noticing that the status of the /usr/lib directory was inconsistent (causing dynamic linking to fail), but fsck wasn't able to clean up the system sufficiently to make the system usable. I then switched machines for unrelated reasons and installed 2.1.0-951026-SNAP thinking that perhaps the 2940 driver was immature in the 2.0.5 release. In this case the system stayed up for a week before the filesystem became corrupted this weekend. The / partition sustained some damage (I no longer have a spwd.db and thus no root account), but the /usr partition is the one that was hit particularly hard. After running fsck -y I have hundreds of files in lost+found. Does anyone have any insight on what could be causing this? Thanks, Scott Alexander salex@dsl.cis.upenn.edu