Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:14:50 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com> To: ben@narcissus.ml.org (Snob Art Genre) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A simple way to crash your system. Message-ID: <199611261214.OAA02818@eac.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961126033125.339B-100000@narcissus.ml.org> from Snob Art Genre at "Nov 26, 96 03:31:39 am"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Robert Nordier wrote: [ ... ] > > *All* problems occurred with the DOS FS on a 64/63 IDE drive. FIPS > > was not necessarily used. In one case, the corrupted UFS fs was > > actually on another drive. > > > > Unless someone is aware of the problem being more general, it may > > be worth patching the msdosfs code to (by default) refuse to access > > DOS FSes with > 16 sectors per cluster on such drives. > > > > Or at least warn that 64/63 IDE setups are particularly vulnerable. > > My drive was/is SCSI. Too bad: this seemed like yet another reason for avoiding IDE. Anyone ever encountered corruption accessing a DOS partition with <= 16 sectors per cluster? -- Robert Nordier
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199611261214.OAA02818>