[httpd problem]

[Matt Graham]

"Marcel Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu> wrote:

[snip funky DNS problems]

> PS: BTW I did get on reiserfs list and worked further on my mkreiserfs 
> /dev/hdb problem. I spend some time writing zeros to drives and etc. 
> Eventually I figured out that the 8 gig seagate and 45 gig wdc drive 
> didn't like being on same controller. Once I moved my drive into:
>
> /dev/hda seagate
> /dev/hdc wdc1
> /dev/hdd wdc2
> 
> I could mkreiserfs /dev/hd(c,d) just fine.

Western Digital drives used to be notorious for this sort of bad behavior.
 I haven't heard of many of these problems recently, though, and my own
experiences with WD drives have been trouble-free (knock on formica.) 
This is a weird way for it to show up, though--usually the errors are
immediately fatal, and reads and writes will just not work, instead of
writes (as in mkreiserfs) working and reads (as in mount) failing....


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