Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 14:40:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 14:40:11 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:4880 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 14:40:10 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 19:43:56 +0100 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, debian-alpha@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: 2.4.19 eat my disc (contents) Message-ID: <20020811184356.GC755@gallifrey> References: <20020811175252.GB755@gallifrey> <20020811182832.GA21639@wurtel.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020811182832.GA21639@wurtel.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Chocolate: 70 percent or better cocoa solids preferably X-Operating-System: Linux/2.4.18 (i686) X-Uptime: 19:42:46 up 8:29, 1 user, load average: 2.23, 2.26, 2.18 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1626 Lines: 38 * Paul Slootman (paul@debian.org) wrote: > 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... Sure; it was just a standard apt-get dist-upgrade (since I'd not run the upgrade for a few weeks); not a major potato->woody transition or anything. > 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. I suspect the IDE driver; but that is difficult to tell. Dave ---------------- Have a happy GNU millennium! ---------------------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM, SPARC and HP-PA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/