Re: 2.4.19 eat my disc (contents)

From: Paul Slootman (paul@debian.org)
Date: Sun Aug 11 2002 - 13:28:33 EST


On Sun 11 Aug 2002, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:

> I've just lost the contents of my disc on my Alpha to 2.4.19 - be

That's not absolutely sure...

> All tools were from Debian/unstable; updated immediatly prior to the
> kernel build.

It could of course be that during the update something trashed some
part of the disk, which only made itself apparent after the reboot.

Golden rule: only change one thing at a time...

My alpha's been running 2.4.19-rc2 for more than 3 weeks now without any
problems (the kernel also has my patches against unaligned accesses in
the kernel, for the packet filter and for netfilter). I don't think
anything big would have been changed between rc2 and the final release,
so unless it's specific to the IDE driver (I use SCSI) I doubt the
kernel is the culprit.

Of course, this isn't any comfort for you; sorry about your trashed
system...

Paul Slootman
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