Weird hdparm problem
Hi,
I've came across a _real_ strange thing.
On my Alpha ( UP2000, potato-TC3, dist-upgraded last friday ), I installed hdparm 3.6-1
out of curiosity, in order to test my disk-transfer rates.
I have three SCSI disks and i used the following command line, to test my first drive, right
after I installed the package:
/sbin/hdparm -Tt /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.54 seconds =238.45 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: Illegal instruction
After the command gave the illegal instruction, the _executable file_ was corrupted !
Thus, another try with the same command-line produced:
./hdparm: cannot execute binary file
and file /sbin/hdparm gave:
./hdparm: data
hmm. Ok. I removed hdparm, using dpkg -r hdparm and reinstalled it. Upon the next
invocations, it worked three times (on different drives ) and after that, failed again on
/dev/sdb1. Same error, leaving the binary-file of hdparm corrupt.
Now, Ok, I use kernel 2.4.0-test11, but have not yet seen such a behaviour on
any other program. Although, I am almost certain, the faliure is related to the
kernel as being a 2.4-test series, I wonder, if anybody else ever observed something
similar.
IMHO, this is very bizarre, I have never seen any executable in any UNIX evironment
being corrupted by merely running it.
Any ideas ? Anybody willing to try either hdparm on the stock-2.2 series kernels
and under some 2.4-test series ?
I'll poke around in hdparm-sources a bit, in order to get an idea what _might_ have
happened. But believe me, this one gets me ;)
A _very_ confused
Thomas Weyergraf
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