> Download, burn to CD and run http://www.memtest86.com/ > > Usually problems of this sort are faulty ram. > I had a buddy getting odd errors on copying files that happenned at > random. > Turned out to be bad ram too.
I recently had this same problem with a recent 6-STABLE and thought the same thing. Ran memtest for over 48 hours and never came up with any errors. I would cvsup source and run an md5 check to compare with another "known good" system and seemed to always have 1-2 files bad. It seemed to always be just 1 bit off. Tried swapping cables, cards (SCSI), etc. The system was running gmirror on two 18G SCSI drives using an Adaptec controller. If I disabled the 2nd drive, I didn't have a single problem after a ton of testing. Turned out that I hadn't formatted the 2nd drive using the Adaptec tools. The drives had been out of service for about 3 years. Once I went through a format/verify I wasn't able to duplicate the problem no matter what I tried. So, RAM is definitely the easiest thing to test but keep in mind that there are other areas that may also cause an issue. Jaime Bozza _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"