erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> writes: >> it's a bad day and you're going to need to think about a new hard >> drive or motherboard. > > there's an easy way to test this. since you can boot > from the live cd, just reboot into the live cd and
I booted the install CD, turned on DMA, dd'd the disk to /dev/null. No errors appeared on the console or /dev/kmesg. I then reinstalled Plan 9 using the default "prep" for fossil+venti. I rebooted, Plan 9 loaded, and I let it sit. System load was high, which I presume was venti doing its thing in the background. After a few minutes, system load dropped to zero, and the following messages appeared on the screen, just like happened the previous time. (Only this time, I wasn't bragging about the OS when it crashed. ;) I wrote ABSOLUTELY nothing to the fossil fs, or changed any file attributes, after booting. I just let it sit there peacefully and do its thing. Alas, it seems to have failed in more or less the same way. (Hm. After a reboot, Plan 9 loads again. However, it immediately starts generating those errors, again, with score 0x0000baf2, score 0x0000bafc, score 0x0000bb16, and score 0x0000bb17. Typing "fshalt" at the rc prompt returns "fshalt: error reading block 0x0000595e".) Here's what the console shows (typed by hand, may be typos): fossil: diskWriteRaw failed: /dev/sdC0/fossil: score 0x0000bb17: date Fri Mar 18 15:08:43 EDT 2011 part=data block 47895: i/o error fossil: diskWriteRaw failed: /dev/sdC0/fossil: score 0x0000003b: date Fri Mar 18 15:08:43 EDT 2011 part=data block 59: i/o error fossil: diskWriteRaw failed: /dev/sdC0/fossil: score 0x0000003e: date Fri Mar 18 15:08:43 EDT 2011 part=data block 62: i/o error fossil: diskWriteRaw failed: /dev/sdC0/fossil: score 0x00000049: date Fri Mar 18 15:08:43 EDT 2011 part=data block 73: i/o error fossil: diskWriteRaw failed: /dev/sdC0/fossil: score 0x0000004a: date Fri Mar 18 15:08:43 EDT 2011 part=data block 74: i/o error fossil: diskWriteRaw failed: /dev/sdC0/fossil: score 0x0000004b: date Fri Mar 18 15:08:44 EDT 2011 part=data block 75: i/o error fossil: diskWriteRaw failed: /dev/sdC0/fossil: score 0x0000004c: date Fri Mar 18 15:08:44 EDT 2011 part=data block 76: i/o error fossil: diskWriteRaw failed: /dev/sdC0/fossil: score 0x0000004d: date Fri Mar 18 15:08:44 EDT 2011 part=data block 77: i/o error fossil: diskWriteRaw failed: /dev/sdC0/fossil: score 0x0000004e: date Fri Mar 18 15:08:44 EDT 2011 part=data block 78: i/o error fossil: diskWriteRaw failed: /dev/sdC0/fossil: score 0x0000004f: date Fri Mar 18 15:08:45 EDT 2011 part=data block 79: i/o error fossil: diskWriteRaw failed: /dev/sdC0/fossil: score 0x00000050: date Fri Mar 18 15:08:45 EDT 2011 part=data block 80: i/o error fossil: diskWriteRaw failed: /dev/sdC0/fossil: score 0x00000051: date Fri Mar 18 15:08:45 EDT 2011 part=data block 81: i/o error 2011/0318 19:10:37 err 4: write /dev/sdC0/arenas offset 0x7aa6000 count 8192 buf 3840000 returned -1: i/o error /boot/venti: writeproc: part /dev/sdC0/arenas addr 0x7aa6000: write error: write /dev/sdC0/arenas offset 0x7aa6000 count 8192 buf 3840000 returned -1: i/o error 2011/0318 19:10:37 err 4: write /dev/sdC0/arenas offset 0x1ffa4000 count 8192 buf 39e8000 returned -1: i/o error /boot/venti: writeproc: part /dev/sdC0/arenas addr 0x1ffa4000: write error: write /dev/sdC0/arenas offset 0x1ffa4000 count 8192 buf 39e8000 returned -1: i/o error 2011/0318 19:10:37 err 4: write /dev/sdC0/arenas offset 0x200c0000 count 8192 buf 4024000 returned -1: i/o error /boot/venti: writeproc: part /dev/sdC0/arenas addr 0x200c0000: write error: write /dev/sdC0/arenas offset 0x200c0000 count 8192 buf 4024000 returned -1: i/o error -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ |E-Mail: smi...@zenzebra.mv.com PGP key ID: BC549F8B| |Fingerprint: 9329 DB4A 30F5 6EDA D2BA 3489 DAB7 555A BC54 9F8B| +---------------------------------------------------------------+
