Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 31 Aug 2002 01:07:05 -0500 (CDT) | From | Mike Isely <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.20-pre4-ac1 trashed my system |
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On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > Your data is not trashed.
Well actually it was. After the driver read bad data from the disk (presumably mis-addressed) my knee-jerk reaction was to run e2fsk -y to "fix" it. And _that_ trashed the data.
> Linux failed to understand cut off partitions.
???
> When you said you put it on primary channel, I realized that you have a > system that breaks the rules of Promise and I am not sure.
What are the "rules of Promise" or where may I find such information?
> This will make it more painful to parse systems which can 48-bit and those > which can not. > > This is not going to be fun.
But this wasn't a problem in 2.4.19-ac4; what confounding factor now is making it difficult?
> > grep "hwif->addressing" pdc202xx.c > > Stub out the three lines. > > Recompile and reboot, it will be fixed
Will do. Thanks. If you have a more permanent fix you'd like me to test, let me know.
-Mike
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