Re: FBSD 2.5.1-p11 | Promise SATA150 TX2plus | Seagate B 200GB - BAD SUPERBLK / Machine freezes up etc

From: Sebastian Holmqvist (sebastian.holmqvist_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/10/04

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    On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:25:18 -0500, Louis LeBlanc
    <freebsd@keyslapper.org> wrote:
    > On 11/10/04 07:13 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed:
    > > > <SNIP>
    >
    >
    > >
    > > Gah!!
    > > This drives me mad!
    > >
    > > My cvsup didn't go as I planned, so I reinstalled from scratch yesterday.
    > > Updated my ports-tree and installed proftp and set it up.
    > >
    > > I formatted my Sata-discs WITH the logical geometry printed at seagates site.
    > > Started a transfer, it lasted 2 hours, then :/
    > > Now my whole can is frozen and I can't do anything but restart.
    > > Somebody, please help!
    >
    > I feel your pain buddy.
    >
    > I haven't had any trouble yet with my new 5.3 install. I haven't booted
    > up an SMP kernel yet either. Who knows if that will do the trick. This
    > is the initial install with the fdisk detected geometry, not the WD
    > settings.
    >
    > I have put the system under some load, but without the SMP kernel I
    > wasn't able to get the disk humming too much. I even built mozilla in
    > one shell while rebuilding firefox in another. Building OpenOffice.org
    > didn't encounter any problems either.
    >
    > If all goes well, while I'm at work today, the first stage of buildworld
    > and buildkernel should be happening. When I get home, I'll finish the
    > install and see if rebuilding OpenOffice.org works without incident.
    > Other than that, everything but the BSD version (and my fancy new dual
    > head setup - happydance!) is the same as my previous 5.2.1 setup that
    > had me pulling my hair out with disk write based crashes.
    >
    > I'll fill you in when I know what happens.
    > Good luck.
    > Lou
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    Please do!
    Well, this really sucks...
    If it's not fixed soon I'll do something drastic, either I pull my
    thumb out of my ass and switch the hardware from another computer, or
    I'll..... go over to win98 :/

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    Sebastian Holmqvist
    Webprogrammer / HL2 modder
    http://cae.hl2files.com
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