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On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> 
> :
> :i have 'ed' driver and mine blows up as well.
> :
> :panic: found dirty cache page 0xf047ae60
> :Debugger("panic")
> 
>     Ok, so much for if_de being the cause.
> 
>     BTW, for anybody who doesn't want to wait for us to find the
>     bug, you can comment out the MADV_FREE code and that should
>     put a stop to it.  The MADV_FREE code isn't broken, but it seems
>     to cause the bug to occur which is why *I* haven't commented
>     it out - I'd rather find the bug.
> 
>     Also, update your kernel trees and turn on the INVARIANTS options:
> 
> 	options         INVARIANTS
> 	options         INVARIANT_SUPPORT
> 
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@backplane.com>
> 
> :
> :btw, i'm hardly 'stressing' this machine it's a k6-233+96ram and
> :i'm running X and doing a 'make release'
> :
> :Is it safe to enable crashdumps on IDE disks yet?
> :
> :-Alfred
> 
>     I don't know.
> 
>     I wasn't aware that there was a problem with crash dumps on
>     ide disks.  There shouldn't be.
> 

Crashdumps on IDE disks never stopped working for me.

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