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Date:      Sun, 07 Mar 1999 18:22:31 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, Sren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: UPDATE2: ATA/ATAPI driver new version available. 
Message-ID:  <199903080222.SAA04576@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Mar 1999 20:16:32 CST." <Pine.OSF.4.02.9903072007120.2739-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> 

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From the context I've seen, the 'ufs_dirbad' panic is almost certainly 
due to corrupted disk input.

> On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:
> 
> # > Just for grins I changed the ata_probe to ignore all but the first
> # > controller and it is back to the ufs_dirbad panic. :(
> # 
> # I never had the ufs_dirbad panic.  With the 4 March driver, my system
> # works very well and probes all the ATA devices.  Very odd.
> 
> Yep, this one has me baffled.  The disklabels are there.  Well at
> least 'disklabel <slice_name>' shows something besides gibberish.
> This may sound stupid but if they are required and indeed not there
> why would the old driver not barf at the same spot?  If I had to
> fathom a guess I'd say it had to do with using incorrect drive
> geometry.
> 
> Got any ideas on where I might start looking to fix this one?
> 
> # --
> # Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
> # Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037
> # 
> # 
> # 
> 
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