Re: 2.4.19 eat my disc (contents)
David,
Well before you start pointing bogus fingers again, you need to be sure.
Now since I only use -ac patches as a base, I do know there could be some
issues, but you can not execute that code path. It is disabled.
If it eats Alpha, there are way more people then you who would be eating
my shorts and kicking my arse.
Cheers,
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Paul Slootman (paul@debian.org) wrote:
> > On Sun 11 Aug 2002, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> >
> > > I've just lost the contents of my disc on my Alpha to 2.4.19 - be
> >
> > That's not absolutely sure...
> >
> > > All tools were from Debian/unstable; updated immediatly prior to the
> > > kernel build.
> >
> > It could of course be that during the update something trashed some
> > part of the disk, which only made itself apparent after the reboot.
> >
> > Golden rule: only change one thing at a time...
>
> Sure; it was just a standard apt-get dist-upgrade (since I'd not run the
> upgrade for a few weeks); not a major potato->woody transition or
> anything.
>
> > My alpha's been running 2.4.19-rc2 for more than 3 weeks now without any
> > problems (the kernel also has my patches against unaligned accesses in
> > the kernel, for the packet filter and for netfilter). I don't think
> > anything big would have been changed between rc2 and the final release,
> > so unless it's specific to the IDE driver (I use SCSI) I doubt the
> > kernel is the culprit.
>
> I suspect the IDE driver; but that is difficult to tell.
>
> Dave
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