I had similar symptoms on a laptop. It was running Windows 95, but I think it still applies. Format and re-install fixed it for 2-3 months, then bad sectors left and right. Turns out the hard drive was failing. (overheating in this example)
>On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:13:20PM -0000, Lawrence Farr stood up and spoke: >> >> Moved the install back to another disk (I ran the IBM low level >> disk >> tools on the disk first, and it passed). Within an hour I had a panic. >> It was a corrupt directory error, but it rebooted before I had chance to >> write >> down the error. I newfs'd it last night, and left it run with no >> problems, >> and it's buildingworld again now. > >So a simple newfs and restore operation solved your problem? For sure I'll >try the same here now. > >Now that I think about it, the machine also tended to run rock-solid ever >since I put it together in April 2001. The problems only started to occur >when I changed the HD in December. WHile the new disk seems to be ok >according to Western Digital's WDDIAG, I guess newfs'ing it and restoring >the data to it surely cannot hurt... > >Greetings >Nils > > >-- >Nils Holland >Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany >http://www.tisys.org * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
