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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: scribbling on disk with 2940 and FreeBSD 2.2.2 Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 12:14:21 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 18 Message-ID: <33AB38FD.667F@OntheNet.com.au> References: <EByu13.2JB@ditka.Chicago.COM> <01bc7c28$2cc3d960$6601a8c0@teds.portsoft.com> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43246 > Karl Swartz <kls@ohare.chicago.com> wrote in article > <EByu13.2JB@ditka.Chicago.COM>... > > I have a system with an AMD 486DX4-100, 16 MB, an Adaptec 2940, and a > > Seagate ST43400N. I had tried running FreeBSD 2.1.5 on it but that I'm running a cacheing proxy on a Pentium with a 2940 ctlr. Worked reasonably well with FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 and 2.2.2 ! I did have the 'odd' crash (~30+ days apart), but these became more frequent in the last few days. I installed a CVSup'd kernel (2.2-STABLE) and some more memory and the system crashed within minutes of booting. Turning off the secondary cache "fixed" this (or apparently so) as the machine has been running for 2 days without crashing! I suspect that my earlier crashes were caused by the 'bad' cache. I never saw a disk/file data corruption however. The only problems were related to unclean disks due to the crashes... Tony