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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: IO check (only during savecore?!)\
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>Subject: IO check (only during savecore?!)\

>Needless to say, this is _really_ annoying 8(

savecore just does a big read from a raw device.  This has been known to
expose bugs in both h/w and s/w.  The U34F used to work.

>(and whereabouts in /etc/rc they put the 'dumpon' command?  It's nowhere 
>by default 8()

It wasn't supported in rc or sysconfig in 2.0.5.  It's in 2.1.

Bruce