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Subject: Re: Bug#380703: mondo: Mondo/Mindi detects my serial ATA hard disk as 
an IDE.
Date: Thursday 03 August 2006 11:19
From: Robert Jeffrey Miesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Bruno Cornec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 16:40, you wrote:
> Andree Leidenfrost said on Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:00:47AM +1000:
> > > Upon booting from a DVD image of my entire system, mondo/mindi detects
> > > my SATA (Serial ATA) hard disk as an IDE drive.
>
> Without any log file, I have problems understanding that.
> Please Could you provide /tmp/mondo-restore.log when restoring, as well
> as /var/log/mondo-archive.log when backuping to help in diags.

Sure. They are attached to this email.

> Do you mean that your sda (if that's the way your SATA drive is seen) is
> now seen as hda ?

Yes. When I boot my main system, my SATA is detected as a serial device
(designated by the sd prefix) and when I boot Mondo/Mindi, my SATA is
detected as an IDE (designated by the hd prefix).

> > > This makes my backup virtually worthless in the event of a
> > > catastrophic failure of my system (whether from me messing it up or my
> > > hard disk failing). That is why I called this bug a critical bug,
> > > because it does break the whole system when you can't restore your
> > > system.
>
> Well afio format is ALWAYS readable, if you need access to your data.
>
> Bruno.

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Robert Miesen

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Attachment: mondo-archive.log.bz2
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