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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!nntp.msstate.edu!Ra.MsState.Edu!aak2 From: aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New SNAP and swap problems Date: 8 May 1996 00:45:35 -0500 Organization: Mississippi State University Lines: 18 Message-ID: <aak2.831534226@Ra.MsState.Edu> References: <aak2.831366925@ra.msstate.edu> <4modd6$aut@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: ra.msstate.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) wrote: >> /kernel: wd0s1b: hard error reading fsbn 3226 of 3200-3263 (wd0s1 bn >> 4713626; cn 4676 tn 3 sn 29)wd0: status 59<seekdone,drq,err> error 40<uncorr> >Poor hardware. Since i know John Dyson has been making good >experiences with his WD drive, i rather suspect a timing problem (or >interrupt problem) with the controller. Perhaps also bus timing can >get into your way. Strange thing is that I only get the errors on the swap partition and not any other partitions, no matter how much I thrash them. I also FAT formatted the drive and ran surface scans and got no errors. Atif Khan aak2@ra.msstate.edu