Hi Rod/, since you obviously Know It All please tell me what caused this:
May 17 17:00:14 soekris2 /bsd: wd0a: bad block detected writing fsbn 661472 of 661472-661503 (wd0 bn 661536; cn 656 tn 4 sn 36), retrying May 17 17:00:17 soekris2 /bsd: wd0a: bad block detected writing fsbn 661472 of 661472-661503 (wd0 bn 661536; cn 656 tn 4 sn 36) May 17 17:00:17 soekris2 /bsd: wd0a: bad block detected writing fsbn 662432 of 662432-662463 (wd0 bn 662496; cn 657 tn 3 sn 51), retrying May 17 17:00:20 soekris2 /bsd: wd0a: bad block detected writing fsbn 662432 of 662432-662463 (wd0 bn 662496; cn 657 tn 3 sn 51) [... endless list ...] May 17 17:00:08 soekris2 /bsd: wd0a: id not found reading fsbn 57856 of 57856-57887 (wd0 bn 57920; cn 57 tn 7 sn 23), retrying May 17 17:00:10 soekris2 last message repeated 4 times May 17 17:00:11 soekris2 /bsd: wd0a: id not found reading fsbn 57856 of 57856-57887 (wd0 bn 57920; cn 57 tn 7 sn 23) May 17 17:00:11 soekris2 /bsd: wd0a: id not found reading fsbn 57856 of 57856-57887 (wd0 bn 57920; cn 57 tn 7 sn 23), retrying [... idem ...] Cosmic radiation? An Amateur On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 12:07 +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:37:06 +0100, Antoine Zen-Ruffinen wrote: > > >Something is appearing to me as I read your instructions. I don't > >think it is a good idea to swap on the CF. It will use it prematurely > >as a CF has a limited read/write-cycle lifetime. But your instructions > >are good anyway. > > > > Rubbish. Haven't you seen the new machines that use flash "disks" ? > > Yes, there is a cycle limit on writes (NOT reads) but trying to thrash > a 512MB Apacer PhotoSteno to death for a year was a total failure. It > is still running more than a year later in a 4801 doing firewall duty. > > I throw a completely standard OpenBSD on there using pxeboot. No X, no > games, no compilers (NOT for security as that is another fallacious > idea) and until recently I used a miniscule swap (that never gets > written to) because OpenBSD used to complain. That's now fixed. > > Compiling special kernels, running ramdisk (in a machine that is low on > RAM?) and all those other "hair shirt" measures are not worth the time > they take. > > As an IBM Linux instructor (now retired) I sure know how to do all that > stuff but my time is still worth money so I'll leave it to amateurs. > > R/ > > Rod/ > > A consultant is someone who's called in when someone has painted himself into > a corner. He's expected to levitate his client out of that corner. > > -The Sayings of Chairman Morrow. 1984. > > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech > -- GNU - "GNU's Not Underdone" _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
