From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-ID: <12927.986181257@slagheap.cygnus.com>
References: <20010329203236.A2834@shell17.ba.best.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-q2/msg00004.html
Message-ID: <20010401204600.K3txBETdscHpCLwbK8SGJphyWyW8A6-spLZRNQk1ly0@z>

  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