Re: FreeBSD 5.x and "Bad File Descriptor" errors. Why?

2003-12-03 Thread Dan Naumov
Doug White wrote: Maxtor has a diag tool that goes onto a floppy that you could run. I have this exact disk in my sparc64 here and the first time I used it, it kept running over bad sectors and generally causing mayhem. Running the full scan with the tool, it prompted to fix some problems, then th

Re: FreeBSD 5.x and "Bad File Descriptor" errors. Why?

2003-12-03 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Dan Naumov wrote: > causing this bizarre behavior ? If this is of any help, the exact model > number of the HD is "MAXTOR 4K040H2" and I was using UFS2 on both > drives. Thanks in advance. Maxtor has a diag tool that goes onto a floppy that you could run. I have this exact dis

Re: FreeBSD 5.x and "Bad File Descriptor" errors. Why?

2003-12-03 Thread Klaus-J. Wolf
Dan Naumov wrote: What follows is a description of a problem I used to have when running FreeBSD 5.0 and 5.1. [...] After the installation of the OS (usually about 8-12 days of running non-stop) I start getting "Bad File Descriptor" errors on random files all around the Maxtor drive and I have

Re: FreeBSD 5.x and "Bad File Descriptor" errors. Why?

2003-12-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:55:29PM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote > > >You get that error from what command(s)? Have you tried with 5.2, > >which has a new ATA driver? > > > >Kris > > > > > I usually "discover" that I am having data corruption when trying to > update ports. A fi

Re: FreeBSD 5.x and "Bad File Descriptor" errors. Why?

2003-12-03 Thread Dan Naumov
Kris Kennaway wrote You get that error from what command(s)? Have you tried with 5.2, which has a new ATA driver? Kris I usually "discover" that I am having data corruption when trying to update ports. A file that has a "Bad File Descriptor" refuses to let cvsup overwrite and/or remove itsel

Re: FreeBSD 5.x and "Bad File Descriptor" errors. Why?

2003-12-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:43:57PM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: > Hello > > What follows is a description of a problem I used to have when running > FreeBSD 5.0 and 5.1. I am not running FreeBSD right now, but I am > considering going back to it but I need to figure out how to prevent > this issue

FreeBSD 5.x and "Bad File Descriptor" errors. Why?

2003-12-03 Thread Dan Naumov
Hello What follows is a description of a problem I used to have when running FreeBSD 5.0 and 5.1. I am not running FreeBSD right now, but I am considering going back to it but I need to figure out how to prevent this issue from happening again. My system has 2 harddrives, a 16 GB Seagate that