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    Subject[PATCH]Diskdump - yet another crash dump function
    Although I know about LKCD and netdump, I'm developing yet another crash
    dump, which is a polling-based disk dump as netdump do. Because it
    disables any interrupts during doing dump, it can avoid lots of problems
    LKCD has.

    Main Feature
    - Reliability
    Diskdump disables interrupts, stops other cpus and writes to the
    disk with polling mode. Therefore, unnecessary functions(like
    interrupt handler) don't disturb dumping.
    - Safety
    Before writing to the disk, diskdump checks its disk partition to
    confirm whether it is a really dump device. Therefore, diskdump
    doesn't overwrite filesystems by mistake.

    Currently, diskdump supports only scsi disk(aic7xxx/aic79xx), but, I'm
    planning to support IDE disk in the near future.

    Diskdump can be downloaded from here.
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/lkdump
    Please see readme.txt which can be downloaded from this site.

    Any comments?

    Best Regards,
    Takao Indoh
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