pablo@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Pablo Sanchez) (08/29/90)
Hi there, We're experiencing a very strange phenomena on our machine. I cannot replicate the problem, however, the problem does occur with enough frequency to be a real pain in the butt. During our normal work day (we do ACCELL/SQL, ACCELL/IDS application development) all of a sudden a file will disappear or the system will reboot itself. Also, when the system reboots itself, a whole bunch of files will get munged. For instance our ``mview'' library one time took a hit. Or a C archive will. What's strange is that the files (or directories) that take the hit can be read-only (such as the mview library or the C archive) or can be read/write files (such as file.db from my ACCELL/SQL application). By the way, by taking-a-hit I mean that the i-nodes are stepped on. I'll do an ``ls'' on the file and the file size is something like 2 gazzillion bytes or the permissions are all screwy. Although in the case with ``file.db'', that baby just disappeared. The thing is that when files get munged, it does not always correlate to the system rebooting. Also, when we reboot the system we may get an error message as follows: "Hard disk controller failure". The problem is not centralized to one disk either (see below for our configuration). I apologize if this note seems to ramble because I cannot see any logical way to present these crazy facts. Anyway, any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Configuration: -------------- Machine Everex 386/25 Primary Drive Maxtor model 8760E Secondary Drive Micropolis 1664-7 Specialix SI Intelligent I/O driver SmartCache (tm) on the disk controller Main Memory 16MB Cache on Main Memory ??MB or K? -- Pablo Sanchez ``Can I touch you to see if you're real...'' Transact Software, Inc - Payolas