Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Jul 2000 13:55:53 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Wide spread test needed before 2.4.0 is released. |
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There is an extremely lowlevel bug found that takes a fairly massive write of the command layer in the ATA/IDE that is very hard to invoke but can be done. It can be disk level fatal from beginning to end in some cases. No one has very reported a bug of this nature, but finding it and invoking it was a long process between the two events.
The solution has one flaw in backwards compatablity. You may not call hdparm -I /dev/hdx without a segfault in user-space.
There is a new call to reset a drive from user space if needed. The hdparm extention will be posted on kernel.org shortly.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy [unhandled content-type:application/octet-stream]
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