Re: 2.4.19 eat my disc (contents)
* 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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