arium@feedme.UUCP (arium) (04/02/88)
Was the cause of the phantom disk errors ever elucidated? If so, could the poster of the explanation please email the article to me? I've been experiencing these errors lately and believe they're somehow related to ld (unlikely) or the swapping mechanism. I only experience them during the ld phase of a make of a large binary (about 300K result). After a disk error, ld would complain about the relocation information in a module. The module name would vary depending on the load on the rest of the system, implying that errors were occuring on either reading temporary files or in the ld task's memory area after being swapped out and back in (after growing its bss, I guess). After verifying that the "bad" sectors were perfectly fine, I broke the ld into four partial ld's and one final ld. The disk errors went away, and the ld completed without error. Diagnosis, anyone? - Doug