Lyvim Xaphir wrote: >On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 14:06, Guy Zelck wrote: > >>I've installed it and ran it for 6H without any errors popping up. I >>personally don't believe it's the memory which is in fault. >>As if the devil was involved I had a freeze again just after boot-up. I >>followed the Alt-SysRq-... sequence to finally reboot but then again I >>had my KDE files corrupted. What I don't understand is how that crap is >>written to my config files. If xfs writes what it finds in its xfs log >>then it would mean that the xfs log contains rubbish. How did this >>rubbish get in there or is it taking a wrong part of the log. >> >>Is the xfs that's used in md8.2 still the same version or is it a higher >>version? Maybe upgrade? >> >>When I boot up the only fsck I ever notice amongst Aurora's output is >>the one of my /boot partition (ext2), is this supposed to be like that? >>I suppose Fsck in rc.sysinit just re-directs the output to syslog. >> >>Guy. >> > > >Guy, > >The SCSI bus chain needs to be terminated on both ends. By that I mean >that the adapter itself needs some termination (usually set to automatic >in the bios in the case of the Adaptec models (I have an Adaptec 3940U >dual channel PCI installed in this machine btw). > Yes, I know all this. My adptr is on automatic and I use a terminator on the internal flat cable's far end. The external scsi bus goes to a jazz drive (automatic termination selected) and then into a old pc box I stashed with a few big Seagates ST42400N (big & heavy motherfuckers), an ARCHIVE 1/2" tape drive & an Hexabyte 8mm drive (now you know all) on a terminated flat cable. My scsi setup never gave me any problems.
>This includes your 2940. I think you said that you don't have access to >the Adaptec bios anymore. There happens to be a "quiet" option in these >cards that turns off the verbose bios access message when the card bios >is loading. HOWEVER THE OPTION IS STILL THERE. This may be your >problem. > It's not that. I still see the Ctrl-A msg but once having chosen this the card itself reports that it can't see any scsi controller so I can't get to any of the menus. This is only so on my new computer and I only discoverd this recently. Strangely enough it functions normally like this. Now I've heard that there are some particular pci slots with fixed IRQs or sth., I should try moving the card to another pci slot. Or is the pci standard too new for the card? Back to my file corruption problem which I can reproduce whenever I want (and when I don't want), I think the one thing I could do to rule out xfs as the culprit is either go for a recent kernel (2.4.18) in which a newer xfs is compiled or back up every fs, re-create them with reiserfs on them and then restore the backups. Then test and see if the problem remains. I also intend to test the cpu with 'cpuburn'. Guy.
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