On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:25:18 -0500, Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/10/04 07:13 PM, Sebastian Holmqvist sat at the `puter and typed: > > > <SNIP> > > > > > > Gah!! > > This drives me mad! > > > > My cvsup didn't go as I planned, so I reinstalled from scratch yesterday. > > Updated my ports-tree and installed proftp and set it up. > > > > I formatted my Sata-discs WITH the logical geometry printed at seagates > > site. > > Started a transfer, it lasted 2 hours, then :/ > > Now my whole can is frozen and I can't do anything but restart. > > Somebody, please help! > > I feel your pain buddy. > > I haven't had any trouble yet with my new 5.3 install. I haven't booted > up an SMP kernel yet either. Who knows if that will do the trick. This > is the initial install with the fdisk detected geometry, not the WD > settings. > > I have put the system under some load, but without the SMP kernel I > wasn't able to get the disk humming too much. I even built mozilla in > one shell while rebuilding firefox in another. Building OpenOffice.org > didn't encounter any problems either. > > If all goes well, while I'm at work today, the first stage of buildworld > and buildkernel should be happening. When I get home, I'll finish the > install and see if rebuilding OpenOffice.org works without incident. > Other than that, everything but the BSD version (and my fancy new dual > head setup - happydance!) is the same as my previous 5.2.1 setup that > had me pulling my hair out with disk write based crashes. > > I'll fill you in when I know what happens. > Good luck. > Lou > -- > Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) > http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ > > A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. > -- Groucho Marx > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
Please do! Well, this really sucks... If it's not fixed soon I'll do something drastic, either I pull my thumb out of my ass and switch the hardware from another computer, or I'll..... go over to win98 :/ -- Sebastian Holmqvist Webprogrammer / HL2 modder http://cae.hl2files.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"