On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 06:11:30PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote: > > > The hardware is IBM NetFinity 6000R, and it has ServerWorks ROSB4 UDMA33 > > controller, to which the IDE disk is attached. The size of the IDE hard > > disk is 4Gbytes, and the size of the kernel dump and physical memory both > > fits in that size. > > The ROSB4 is known to have data-corruption problems with running in UDMA > mode. The dump is probably tripping over this, which is why Tor's patch > works since it demotes the device back to PIO.
I also had problems dumping onto a UDMA66 disk on a promise PDC20267 controller - it seemed to dump OK (dump was readable after I recovered the disk), but it (or maybe the crash itself) trashed the partition table. Kris
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