Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:36:45 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> To: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2Re: panic: found dirty cache page 0xf046f1c0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901240131560.55154-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901240029420.25637-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Brian Feldman wrote: > > :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. gee, that's nice to know. Brian, search the -current lists about this, there was/is some confusion in the driver about LBA. Basically, LBA would work at ALL times for the disk, except during a crash dump where it would use those addresses as CHS or something and cream one of my partitions. This lovely affected 2 seperate machines. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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