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Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 01:07:05 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Isely <isely@pobox.com>
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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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