From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 20:08:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FDAE16A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 20:08:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from neuroflux.com (ns1.neuroflux.com [204.228.228.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 378AD43FE5 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 20:08:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryans@gamersimpact.com) Received: (qmail 9775 invoked by uid 89); 27 Nov 2003 04:08:19 -0000 Message-ID: <20031127040819.9774.qmail@neuroflux.com> References: <20031126183744.GA9140@merlin.emma.line.org> <20031127044934.K26615@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> <20031126190344.GA34173@ussenterprise.ufp.org> In-Reply-To: <20031126190344.GA34173@ussenterprise.ufp.org> From: "Ryan Sommers" To: Leo Bicknell Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:08:19 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2-BETA: giving up on 4 buffers (ata) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:08:21 -0000 > > I'll also note in my FreeBSD current debugging of some drivers it was > about a 50/50 shot as to if this would happen. Having to fsck every > other reboot was only made less painful by the background fsck thing. > Don't some BIOS' protect the superblocks as a kind of "virus protection"? Could this be related to them? -- Ryan "leadZERO" Sommers Gamer's Impact President ryans@gamersimpact.com ICQ: 1019590 AIM/MSN: leadZERO -= http://www.gamersimpact.com =-