Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:57:27 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru> To: Phil Kernick <Phil@Kernick.org> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Should bad hardware cause a kernel panic? Message-ID: <3FFD3797.1426A916@kuzbass.ru> References: <3FFD120B.4030100@Kernick.org>
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Phil Kernick wrote: > > This is a serious question and not intended as a troll. > > I have a dying IDE hard drive that I want to try and recover some file from - > the problem is that with it connected to my box, both FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE and > 5.2-RC2 kernel panic. > > This can be reliably duplicated by booting the machine with the drive not > connected, then plugging the drive in, and... > > # atacontrol reinit 1 > panic! > > The real problem with this is that I can't use any tools to try and recover > any data. The GEOM code in 5.x is slightly more resiliant than the 4.x code, > but both cause panics. ata(4) is known to be buggy at least in -STABLE after PAE integration. There is no one interested in fixing it (see also kern/57174, kern/60526). Eugene
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