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SubjectMailbox corruption under 2.3.18ac7
I tried out 2.3.18ac7, and experienced repeated mailbox corruption, until
I switched back to 2.2.12. I'm running a Debian potato system, and I get
my mail via fetchmail, and read it w/ pine. Attached is a snippet of my
mailbox showing what would happen (it was always the same string of
characters. I haven't seen any corruption outside of various mailboxes. I
have an SMP P2 box with 2 SCSI HDs on an onboard adaptec 2940. All the
corruption was on the IBM disk (the other is mounted read-only). Please
let me know if you need more info (although I am a little nervous about
trying another kernel that might corrupt more mailboxes, as you might
imagine) Thanks.

(scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
Vendor: IBM-PCCO Model: DDRS-39130W !# Rev: S97B
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
(scsi0:0:8:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
Vendor: COMPAQ Model: ST19171W Rev: 9A10
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Here is my .config:

CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_M686=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_1GB=y
CONFIG_MTRR=y
CONFIG_SMP=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=8
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY=5
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_EISA=y
CONFIG_TLAN=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y
CONFIG_JOYSTICK=y
CONFIG_JOY_GRAVIS=y
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SOUND=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y

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