Subject: Re: Panic: blkfree: freeing free frag
To: Rick Byers <rickb@iaw.on.ca>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/17/1997 16:06:40
> Hi David, 
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions, but I can't easily duplicate the problem.  It
> just happened twice during a 1.1 gig copy (2500 users home directories).
> I'm just trying to decide if I should be concerned or not.  I've had a
> couple other hard drive related panics in the last few weeks.  I'm hoping
> that 1.2.1 will clear that up.  I'm thinking that it is more likely the
> drive or scsi card is acting up :(  Do you know if a failing drive would
> normally cause panics?  I would think it would just cause a lot of 'hard
> error reading ...'.  
> 
	A failing drive would probably give different errors...
	Whenever you have any problems with a SCSI system its always worth
	double checking the termination and connectors, though it would
	seem more likely to be a software problem in this case.

	What SCSI controller are you using?