Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 26 Jan 1997 21:30:13 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Controller trashes FS (what's new) |
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On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jan 1997, Mike Kilburn wrote: > > > It was my understanding that you must re-format your > > drive when switching SCSI controllers. > > Depends what you're switching from/to. Some cards will deal with > geometries used by others. NCR's for instance can take over after you've > started with an Adaptec, but I don't think you can go the other way. I > wonder if a Buslogic can take over for an NCR...I'm considering trying > that.
I think that this might be the case here. I think that a read or write beyond the physical media caused Linux to be trashed. Subsequent writes went to other devices on the SCSI bus. The maintainer should look at exception handling....
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