Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 19:16:20 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: savecore: first and last dump headers disagree on /dev/ad0b Message-ID: <20031009021620.GA5278@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20031008190451.E50563@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20031007040349.GA10406@ergobrains.co.jp> <20031007180822.J35281@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20031008013014.GA73539@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20031008190451.E50563@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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--ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 07:05:49PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > > The ROSB4 is known to have data-corruption problems with running in U= DMA > > > mode. The dump is probably tripping over this, which is why Tor's pa= tch > > > works since it demotes the device back to PIO. > > > > I also had problems dumping onto a UDMA66 disk on a promise PDC20267 > > controller - it seemed to dump OK (dump was readable after I recovered > > the disk), but it (or maybe the crash itself) trashed the partition > > table. > > >=20 > Well that woudl be funny since the problem boards were replaced with Tyan > S2518s, which have a PDC20267 onboard as well as the ROSB4. The disks > were attached to the Promise, and never had any data corruption issues > with them, at least under linnex. This is a FreeBSD bug that was introduced within the past few months, perhaps with ATAng. Kris --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/hMTzWry0BWjoQKURAsDOAJ4n03/JTfmTRQZYCI8AHubqKhryEQCfTzhI MQr6a0vR+9z5dOM3vu7/cPA= =40Rd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ReaqsoxgOBHFXBhH--
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