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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
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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