To: tomppa_ERASE@fidata.fi cc: scsi_ERASE@freebsd.org Cc: fabio_ERASE@cesar.unicamp.br, gcrutchr_ERASE@nightflight.com, j_ERASE@uriah.heep.sax.de, jc_ERASE@irbs.com, julian_ERASE@freebsd.org, kuku_ERASE@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, lehey.pad_ERASE@sni.de, nikm_ERASE@ixa.net, tomppa_ERASE@fidata.fi, wilko_ERASE@yedi.iaf.nl bcc: gj_ERASE@freebsd.org Subject: 8 * 0xFF bytes at intermittent multiples of 0x1000 From: Julian H. Stacey mail: > Tomi Vainio > Has confirmed he sees the same Adaptec 1542A SCSI adapter bug that I do. > > > I connected sd1 to my 1542A and here are results: > > > > 1. No problems if testblock is only one that generates disk activity. > > 2. I launched couple find processes to sd0 and at same time I > > run testblock. Testblock failed only 1/10 of test runs. > > 3. I copied files with cp to sd1 when running testblock on > > sd1. Testblock failed on every time. > > > > Tomppa Remember if you have a swap partitions on sd*, & you swapped, the swap may be damaged so you might crash, so although my testblock.c is entirely well behaved (read the source if you doubt me :-) , just in case, & certaily if testblock reports data corruption, a reboot might be wise. Comments &/or test results please, Thanks :-) Julian -- Julian H. Stacey jhs@