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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!brighton.openmarket.com!decwrl!pagesat.net!saltcreek.beach.net!dan From: dan@dpcsys.com (Dan Busarow) Subject: Re: 2.1R : Big install problems - Unstable system X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Sender: usenet@news.beach.net (UUCP Administrator) Nntp-Posting-Host: cedb.dpcsys.com Organization: Beach.Net, the Beach Cities, California Message-ID: <DJ8Mxq.CwI@news.beach.net> References: <1995Dec6.154738.1@ugun2a> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 22:39:25 GMT Lines: 24 F. Marcos (marcos@uni2a.unige.ch) wrote: : When moving to 2.1R, I've added 32M RAM and a 2Gig SCSI disk with an Adaptec : 2842-VL controller. : The partition scheme is as follows : IDE : 456 Meg for DOS : 64 Meg Swap : 20 Meg root (/) : SCSI : 1100 Meg for DOS : 800 Meg for /usr It's those big DOS partitions, the virii are leaking over :) Seriously, I'v got a 2.05 system configured pretty much the same (expept no DOS :) and it too _ocasionally_ trashes the filesystem on the SCSI drive, never the IDE. Sitting right next to it is an identical system that is IDE only and it never has a problem. My gut feeling is that there is some problem deep down running IDE and SCSI, I'm going to replace the IDE with another SCSI to test the theory soon. Dan -- Dan Busarow DPC Systems Dana Point, California