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From: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV)
Subject: Re: INN 1.5.1 w/MMAP OK on FreeBSD-2.2?
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Dale Ghent (daleg@fred.net) wrote:
: Your drives die also? I was running 2.1.5-Rel and then upgraded this past
: week to 2.2.1. In both releases, Drives would die like crazy, ranging fron
: SCSI buss errors that reboot the system or media errrors on the drives
: themselves. I have checked and double checked termination, et all... Is
: this FreeBSD or just bad luck with drives?

Make sure your drives can actually handle the transfer speeds you have
the SCSI controller set for.  In all the cases where the drive didn't
physically die, the failures I have encountered by having the transfer
rates set too high for what the device can *really* handle, which may
be lower than what it *claims* it can handle.   

The other frequent cause for strange errors is poor quality (and too
long) SCSI cables, or cables that are made incorrectly.


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					    |"A what?"
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