On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Brian Feldman wrote: > > :btw, i'm hardly 'stressing' this machine it's a k6-233+96ram and > > :i'm running X and doing a 'make release' > > : > > :Is it safe to enable crashdumps on IDE disks yet? > > : > > :-Alfred > > > > I don't know. > > > > I wasn't aware that there was a problem with crash dumps on > > ide disks. There shouldn't be. > > > > Crashdumps on IDE disks never stopped working for me.
gee, that's nice to know. Brian, search the -current lists about this, there was/is some confusion in the driver about LBA. Basically, LBA would work at ALL times for the disk, except during a crash dump where it would use those addresses as CHS or something and cream one of my partitions. This lovely affected 2 seperate machines. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
