From: law@redhat.com
To: Jason Molenda <jason@molenda.com>
Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: hard disk fun == down time
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 20:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12927.986181257@slagheap.cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20010401204600.K3txBETdscHpCLwbK8SGJphyWyW8A6-spLZRNQk1ly0@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010329203236.A2834@shell17.ba.best.com>
In message <20010329203236.A2834@shell17.ba.best.com>you write:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:27:37PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > The end result was that when I wrote to /dev/hda4, I was also randomly
> > writing to /dev/hda3.
>
> Ouch! It wasn't just a partition problem where they were overlapping
> or something like that? I've seen that happen before, where you
> write to one of the partitions and you're scrubbing all over one
> of the other ones in the process.
Nyet.
My guess is there's a kernel bug of some kind. Possibly related to using
DMA on the ide disks. Dunno.
> If that 9GB SCSI drive is still around, the vast majority of the
> web site is static. 99% of all the web pages on the site are
> mailing lists, and only a small fraction of those web archives have
> changed since the drive swap (i.e. the current month/quarter/year
> archives). All of the other archives could be copied back from the
> SCSI drive on top of whatever's there now.
I've still got it. And using it to replace the lost data is the plan.
plan.
jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-01 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-31 19:40 Christopher Faylor
2001-03-29 18:31 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-12-31 19:40 ` Jason Molenda
2001-03-29 20:34 ` Jason Molenda
2001-12-31 19:40 ` Jason Molenda
2001-03-29 21:06 ` Jason Molenda
2001-12-31 19:40 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-03-29 22:14 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-12-31 19:40 ` law [this message]
2001-04-01 20:46 ` law
2001-12-31 19:40 ` Christopher Faylor
2001-03-29 20:56 ` Christopher Faylor
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