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

[Sebastian Holmqvist]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:25:18 -0500, Louis LeBlanc
<freebsd at 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 :/
-- 

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