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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!info.ucla.edu!news.ucdavis.edu!usenet From: Michael White <mdwhite@ucdavis.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Disk crash problem...any ideas of what is going wrong? Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 18:00:49 -0800 Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 72 Message-ID: <32AF6751.41C6@ucdavis.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tioga.engr.ucdavis.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP20) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32425 FreeBSD version: 2.1.5 installed from CD Rom Disk: 1G WD Cavier IDE controller: DC-4030VL CPU: 66Mhz 486DX2 Sorry to bug everyone, but I am having a problem with keeping my BSD machine running. Specifically the problem is that my disk keeps having problems. I am running a Western Digital Cavier 1G drive on a 486DX2 system with a DC-4030VL IDE controller. The problem I seem to have is with the 3rd partition (only one slice). The best I can figure is that once the disk gets past half full, it starts clobbering inode information. My filesystems (which are okay) are: Filesystem 512-blocks used avail cap. /dev/wd1a 38974 31806 4052 89% / /dev/wd1s1e 793790 265758 464530 36% /usr procfs 8 8 0 100% /proc The last partition had numerious inode errors (which I attempted to fix with fsck... which hangs with a number that is too big and can't even seem to patch up). I have looked at information at startup using newfs & fdisk: #newfs -N rwd1s1 /dev/rwd1s1: 40960 sectors in 10 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors 20.0 MB in 1 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00 MB/g, 7680 i/g) Superblock backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32, (^- Note: only one backup is listed here). #fdisk /dev/rwd1 ********* Working on device /dev/rwd1 ************ parameters extracted from in-core disk Label are: cylinders=2100 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=2100 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 0 is: sysid 165, (freeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 2116737 (1033Meg), flag 80 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1 end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 15 The data for partition 1 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> I realize that I will probably have to clear everything off my disk and re-do my partitions, but can anyone see what I have done wrong (as this problem seems to keep coming up). Note: eventhough the DC-4030VL is a VL-Bus IDE caching disk controller, I have turned the cache off and am using the mainboard bios. Any help would be appreciated. -- - Mike mdwhite@ucdavis.edu