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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!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New SNAP and swap problems Date: 9 May 1996 21:17:08 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4mtnck$jbi@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <aak2.831366925@ra.msstate.edu> <4modd6$aut@uriah.heep.sax.de> <aak2.831534226@ra.msstate.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E aak2@Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) wrote: > 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. Surface scans are often poor indications in case your problem is of ``dynamic'' nature. I've got a dead SCSI disk which i can format and read fine as long as i'm doing sequential reads. However, as soon as i'm using it (in my test machine) for some time, there will be a point at which it starts to spit out ``Recorded entity not found'' and such, indicating that it apparently runs into seek problems. I suspect it's positioning to the wrong cylinder, and it finally doesn't recover from this accident. (It sometimes recovers for a short amount of time by powering off and on again. Don't laugh, it's SCSI. :) The system can often cope with this, and usually doesn't crash immediately.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)