From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp) Subject: Re: Buffer corruption problems. Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 05:02:29 GMT
Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga (zuazaga@ucunix.san.uc.edu) wrote:
: I get a series of "HD: read_intr: status = 0x59", "HD: read_intr:
: error = 0x10" followed by an "HD-controller reset" on an odball
: Western Digital + Seagate IDE when doing big compiles ever since 0.96.
: The compilations proceed without error, however.
:
: > - The errors always include the same file (which is why I thought
: >perhaps that that particular file was living on a disk block that was going
: >belly up. I plan to rename that file to .deadblock and putting a new copy
:
: It may be the same file, if compiling the file excercises the bug (not
: reading it, compiling it). Check to see how much memory is used during
: the compile, or turn off optimization?
I got these, too. I finally isolated it to two areas of the disk - one
of the areas was where some archived files live, the other was at the
beginning of swap space (first cylinder of the disk). I used fdisk to
mark the first cylinder of the disk unused (slightly reducing my swap
space allocation) and haven't had a problem since! :) :)
-- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@apple.com 801/538-0177 "This is the final task I will ever give you, and it goes on forever. Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will." -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"