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Subject: Re: UPDATE2: ATA/ATAPI driver new version available. 
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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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