Dave Schmitt wrote:
> NetBSD 1.3.1 has been doing odd things to my files; normal happy everyday
> files keep mutating into devices and other such things. For example,
> on 5June98 I got the following in the daily insecurity report:

[snip]

> Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? It happened to me on 1.3
> before I upgraded to 1.3.1 and then again when I initially installed 1.3.1,
> but I thought that was do to bad blocks on my drive since I got an error
> message about bad blocks doing an rm. I did a low-level format with Anubis
> and told it to go around verifying everything and marking bad spots before
> this latest install, so unless the drive is just gradually dying that
> shouldn't be the problem. System is a IIci running NetBSD 1.3.1 GENERIC w/
> 32MB RAM and a 258 MB drive partitioned about 20 MacOS, 16 swap, rest
> Root&Usr.

The problems you're describing are symptomatic of the ncrscsi driver bug
that affects some drives.  Try switching to a GENERICSBC kernel (or
compile your own kernel with the SBC driver) instead.  That might fix the
problem (unless you've got a really misbehaving drive).

I hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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