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SubjectRe: night of the undead ip stack
In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.981112125016.6739A-100000@schwanda.resnet.tamu.edu> you wrote:

> Nov 11 22:35:43 schwanda kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 {
> DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }

I get these messages often on my second machine (with a flaky harddisk).
It seems that the kernel doesn't handle corrupt disks in a way that allows
the system to survive (see the other thread about the zip-disks).
This makes linux at least somewhat volnurable to DOS-attacks with bad
floppys/zips etc.

Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven


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