On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:43:57PM +0200, Dan Naumov wrote: > Hello > > What follows is a description of a problem I used to have when running > FreeBSD 5.0 and 5.1. I am not running FreeBSD right now, but I am > considering going back to it but I need to figure out how to prevent > this issue from happening again. My system has 2 harddrives, a 16 GB > Seagate that I use for backups and mount it under /mnt/backup and a 40 > GB Maxtor that I am using for everything else. After the installation of > the OS (usually about 8-12 days of running non-stop) I start getting > "Bad File Descriptor" errors on random files all around the Maxtor drive > and I have to go to single-user mode in order to run a full fsck on the > system. After that, the system works, until in 8-12 days time even more > files get "corrupted" this way and the process has to be repeated. > Eventually, so many files are damaged that a full OS reinstall is required. You get that error from what command(s)? Have you tried with 5.2, which has a new ATA driver? Kris
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