Re: MBR zapped when panicking?

From: Harald Schmalzbauer <h_at_schmalzbauer.de>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 02:07:24 +0200
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 20:54, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:17:24PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Today I had a -CURRENT machine panic on me with a page fault, and
> > something happened that I have seen before: the machine refused to
> > come up afterwards. Closer inspection revealed that the MBR on the
> > boot disk was totally zapped, filled with seemingly random characters.
>
> This is a known bug in the ATA driver.  Tor Egge provided a workaround
> patch here a few weeks ago.  I didn't try it because I can't afford to
> trash my disks like that again.

Uhmm, at least a confirmation!
Some weeks ago (03/09/18) I wrote the attached mail.

Thanks,

-Harry

>
> Kris

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