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Date:      Fri, 8 May 1998 01:55:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dmitry Kohmanyuk <dk@dog.farm.org>
To:        tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        tom@sdf.com (Tom), beng@lcs.mit.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Message-ID:  <199805080855.BAA22474@dog.farm.org>

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Subject: Re: Network problem with 2.2.6-STABLE
Newsgroups: cs-monolit.gated.lists.freebsd.hackers
Organization: FARM Computing Association
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In article <199805072222.PAA13813@usr01.primenet.com> you wrote:
[...]
> > - raw access to a partition on EIDE
> > - EIDE controller
> > - dump/restore
> > 
> >   #2 is doubtful, as it would corrupting data all the time, and fsck
> > never reports a problem, unless the controller has an interesting 
> > fail-when-accessed-by-dump bug.

> Or a fail under heavy access bug.

> You still need to md5 an unmounted raw device and run fsck, a bunch
> of times to make sure you are getting the same answer in both cases
> to eliminated the raw disk driver.

another way to test it can be dd the whole FS from IDE drive (unmounted)
to SCSI drive and test again.  An md5 run on original and copy can be
also a good idea.

p.s. anybody using IDE for primary storage in production environment
should be sho^H^H^Hadviced to stop... ;-)

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